[{"title":"About","content":"# Learn, Play and Give Back with Freerice!\r\n\r\nFreerice is an educational trivia game that helps you get smarter while making a difference for people around the world. Every question you answer correctly raises 10 grains of rice for the [World Food Programme (WFP)](https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world.\r\n\r\nPrivate sponsors match the rice grain donations generated within Freerice, triggering a financial payment to WFP. This money goes into the pot of \u0022greatest needs\u0022 to support the organization\u0027s ongoing [emergencies](https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/emergencies). 100% of all funds generated via Freerice go to the World Food Programme. Freerice does not earn or keep any money it raises.\r\n\r\nSince 2010, Freerice has raised more than 214 billion grains of rice for people in need. In cash equivalent, that is US $1.5 million! Join our global community and start making a difference today.\r\n\r\n# What is the World Food Programme?\r\n\r\nThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, delivering life-saving food assistance in emergencies and working with vulnerable communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. Each year, 100 million people receive WFP assistance in 80+ countries around the world.\r\n\r\n# How can I use Freerice in the classroom or in my workplace?\r\n\r\n## Create a group\r\n\r\nOnce you have created a profile, you can create a private group, invite your friends and compete to see who can raise the most rice! Share your group code so players can join. Then track rice grains in the groups \u0022stats\u0022 page to see the rankings of the players. Any rice grains you earn through your individual profile is automatically added into the group.\r\n\r\n## Engage your followers\r\n\r\nEngage your social media followers by hosting #TriviaTuesday! Create quizzes in Instagram Stories and choose a new theme each week. Tag @[wfpfreerice](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wfpfreerice\/) so we can repost you! You can also host a virtual volunteer events to mark key international days, like World Food Day or the International Day of Charity.\r\n\r\n# How does Freerice raise money?\r\n\r\nPrivate sponsors match the rice grains earned in the game: every question you answer correctly generates the cash equivalent of 10 grains of rice donated for WFP.\r\n\r\n# Where are the apps?\r\n\r\nYou may have noticed that we recently removed the Freerice app in the App Store \u0026 Google Play Store, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 98% of our players play Freerice on desktop, so we made a decision to focus our resources on the responsive web app. You can still play the game on desktop or your mobile phone by entering www.freerice.com in your browser! We appreciate your understanding and hope to bring the apps back in the future.\r\n\r\n# Thank you to our volunteers!\r\n\r\nFreerice is so lucky to have an engaged community of players from around the world - and many of you have have even contributed questions and categories to the game. Thank you for all our amazing volunteers for contributing to the game and making Freerice a bigger and better resource for everyone: William Lambers, Raj Dhuwalia, David Madden, Emily Calandrelli, Arzu Kamar, Emma Petcu, Will Yu, Rachel Zitin, Jenna Lichtman, Anne Osmon, Janina Peter, Tobias Huang, Sanjay Amirthraj, Yashas Ravi, Neel Gajare, Rohan Sthanu, Vinita Jadav, Ashleigh Joanna Searle, Aga I My, Nguyet Buy, Elijah Tay, Tim Lynch, Matthew Yu, Justin Munoz, Mary Murphy, Lily Fredicus, Marianne Nelson, Matthew Bergin, Deepika, Jack Dippold, Andrea Ruffelli and Shrung Patel.\r\n\r\nWant to contribute questions or a new category to Freerice? Please send an email to [WFP.Freerice@wfp.org](mailto:WFP.Freerice@wfp.org), and let us know a little bit about you, your area of expertise and what questions you would like to contribute to the game.\r\n\r\n# Community Guidelines\r\n\r\nFreerice is a game for all ages and is designed to be safe, welcoming, and neutral. We are a community of players who want to learn, play, and make a positive difference in the world. We come from all over the world, and we have different beliefs. We have to keep that in mind when we share the Freerice space together.\r\n\r\nYour username and group name are the two places where players can submit information that is visible to other players. Please keep in mind that **we don\u2019t allow usernames or group names that make offensive, upsetting, or controversial statements, including political protest or political satire.**\r\n\r\nIf your username or group name is doing this, we will change it to \u201cName Changed \u2014 See the About Page for Community Guidelines\u201d, at which point you should change it to something else.\r\n\r\nTo protect your data, we do not save your email address in a way that is accessible to us when you sign up, so **we cannot contact you to tell you** if we have changed your username or group name for violating the guidelines.\r\n\r\n# Contact Us\r\n\r\nIf you have any other questions, please contact us at [WFP.Freerice@wfp.org](mailto:WFP.Freerice@wfp.org). If you are having trouble with your account, please let us know your username, email address and any other details that will help us diagnose your problem.\r\n\r\nFollow us on [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/freerice), [Instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wfpfreerice\/) and [Twitter](https:\/\/twitter.com\/Freerice)."}]