PLEASE SHARE YOUR MEAL WITH THE APP ShareTheMeal

PLEASE SHARE YOUR MEAL WITH THE APP ShareTheMeal
IT'S AVAILABLE IN IOS AND ANDROID
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 November 2017, ShareTheMeal has over 920,000 downloads and 17 million meals shared.[1] Google awarded ShareTheMeal as one of the Best Apps of 2016 in the "Most Innovative" category.[2] At Google I/O on May 2017, ShareTheMeal won the Google Play Award for Best Social Impact. (SOURCE WIKIPEDIA)

History

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 ran 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.

Awards and endorsements

Since launching in 2015, ShareTheMeal has gained public recognition from various organizations and corporations. In November 2015, ShareTheMeal won the Lead Academy’s LeadAward for Startup of the Year.In December 2015, ShareTheMeal was included in Google’s Best Apps of 2015 collection and was part of Google’s 2015 Christmas Theme collection. In March 2016, ShareTheMeal won the Innovation Interactive Award at SxSW for the New Economy category.In April 2016, ShareTheMeal won the People's Voice award at the 20th Annual Webby Awards in the Mobile Sites & Apps Best Practices category. In April 2016, ShareTheMeal was nominated for the Classy Award as One of the Most Innovative Nonprofits and Social Enterprises of 2016.In October 2016, ShareTheMeal won the 2016 Lovie Awards in the Mobile & Applications Best Practices category.In November 2016, ShareTheMeal was awarded 3 Shorty Social Good Awards, including "NGO of the Year". In December 2016, ShareTheMeal was selected by Google as one of the Best Apps of 2016. At Google I/O in May 2017, ShareTheMeal won the Google Play Award for Best Social Impact.
ShareTheMeal was endorsed and supported by several celebrities, including President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz,actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens,soccer player Kaká, and musician Grimes.

WE WASTE MONEY/FOOD  IN VARIOUS WAYS, BUT U CAN SHARE MEAL TO A UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILD ONLY LESS 
THAN HALF A DOLLAR. WE ARE GOING TO MARS, EXPENDING BILLION DOLLARS FOR ARMS AND SPACE PROGRAMME,
BUT ITS A SHAME FOR HUMANITY, STILL CHILDREN ON VARIOUS PART OF THE WORLD STRUGGLING WITH HUNGER.


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