For each correct answer, the site donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to third-world countries.
This is the description Free Rice makes of their project:
"Free Rice is a non-profit website that is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme. Free Rice has two goals:
- Provide education to everyone for free.
- Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
There are sixty levels of difficulty and you can choose the subject to answer the questions about.