ShareTheMeal
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| Founded | 2014 |
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| Founder | Sebastian Stricker, Bernhard Kowatsch |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
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Developing countries |
| Method | Crowdfunding |
| Mission | Together we can end global hunger |
| Website | sharethemeal.org |
ShareTheMeal is a crowdfunding smartphone application to fight global hunger through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). It enables users to make small donations to specific WFP projects and to track its progress. As of August 2016, ShareTheMeal has over 600,000 downloads and 7 million meals shared. Google awarded ShareTheMeal as one of the Best Apps of 2016 in the "Most Innovative" category.
Sebastian Stricker and Bernhard Kowatsch founded ShareTheMeal in April 2014 in Berlin during a sabbatical as an independent startup. Since summer 2015, ShareTheMeal has been officially part of WFP and supported by the Innovation Accelerator of WFP. ShareTheMeal run a pilot in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the summer of 2015 providing 1.8 million school meals to children in Lesotho - the app’s first fundraising target.
The app launched globally on November 12, 2015 for iOS and Android devices. The global launch campaign raised funds to give school meals to 20,000 Syrian children living in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan for one year. It was successfully completed in less than 2 months.
Between January and April 2016, ShareTheMeal raised funds to support 2,000 mothers and their babies in Homs, Syria, for a full year. In spring 2016, the app raised funds to support 1,400 Syrian refugee children between the ages of 3 and 4 in Beirut. The goals was completed in less than 7 weeks. ShareTheMeal's last operation current was to support 1,500 refugee children in Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, for a full year. Their parents receive vouchers, allowing them to buy food in local shops. By doing so, it can help ensure the children have nutritious meals, a sense of stability and the chance to simply be children.
Starting August 2016, the ShareTheMeal app is fundraising to support the emergency food relief operation in Malawi, following one of the strongest El Niño events on record. The app’s current goal is to provide school meals to 58,000 school children in Zomba, an area in southern Malawi particularly affected by the El Niño drought, for an entire year. ShareTheMeal joins what is set to become WFP’s largest emergency food operation in the country’s history, as Malawi’s already strained food security situation has worsened following this year’s El Niño event that fuelled a major, global food crisis. Across southern Africa, 18 million people will require emergency assistance 一 of these, WFP is planning to reach 11.9 million people with food assistance.
The children, aged between 6 and 13 years, will receive a specially fortified porridge, through WFP’s school meals programme that supports the Government of Malawi’s National Social Support Programme. The daily porridge aims to reduce short-term hunger and improve attention span in class, as Zomba is one of the 13 food insecure districts that have the lowest enrolment, highest dropout and repetition rates, and widest gender disparities.
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