The United Nations is hoping that Chinese gamers will use their skills to help fight world poverty. But just how many of them will bite on Freerice, a free online English vocabulary game that donates grains of rice to a hungry child for every correct answer, remains to be seen.“Freerice has been a global phenomenon in English, French, Italian and Spanish and is now reaching a critical and influential part of the global population,” said Nancy Roman, communications director for the UN’s World Food Program (WFP), in a post on the WFP website.
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