“Communicating with children today means using the latest technology,”

-Neil Gallagher, U.N. World Food Programme Spokesman

The United Nations World Food Programme is offering a free game called Food Force (available for both the Mac and PC). From the website:

An aircraft circles over a crisis zone. War. Drought. People are hungry. This is the virtual world of the Food Force video game.

It represents too many parts our real world, where 852 million people lack enough food to eat and World Food Programme teams deliver food aid using not only airplanes but a fleet of ships and thousands of trucks.

Play the Food Force game, learn about food aid, and help us work towards a world without hunger.

From a Reuters article on the new game:

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) hopes the game “Food Force,” in which players direct aid workers trying to help the poor, will teach children about the problems of feeding the hungry, especially those trapped in war zones.

“So many parents complain about the blood and gratuitous violence that kids are so frequently exposed to in video games. This is a fun action-packed alternative,” said WFP spokesman Neil Gallagher, launching the game on Thursday.