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freerice.

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during this time of year, when we are so lucky for our bounty, why not help to feed someone else

and maybe learn something along the way?

freericetrivia by the U.N.’s World Food Programme

Want to test your knowledge while helping end world hunger? freerice can make it happen. For every question you answer correctly in the trivia quiz, 10 grains of rice are donated to those in need. Since 2010, freerice has raised more than 214 billion grains of rice (equivalent to $1.5 million) for people around the world.

Play “Freerice”

“poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.”

-matuso basho

the justice of eating.

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world food day is celebrated every year around the world on October 16th

in honor of the date of the founding of

the food and agriculture organization of the united nations in 1945.

image credit: syrian refugee children – cbc