AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Zero Hunger
KEYWORDS
malnurishment, children, Food security
COUNTRY
Germany
DESIGNED BY
The founder of ShareTheMeal is Sebastian Stricker. He previously worked with the United Nations World Food Programme as an innovation advisor on global hunger issues. He is keen on politics and social innovation. Now, the professional designer is Donatas Vainilaitis. He's inspired by complicated things turned into simple and visually attractive user experiences.
WEBSITE
https://sharethemeal.org/en/
ShareTheMeal
ShareTheMeal is the first app fighting global hunger, from the United Nations World Food Programme.
Problem: Hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide - greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. 795m people in the world are suffering from hunger, with children being particularly affected - 45% of children deaths are caused by malnourishment.
Solution: ShareTheMeal is the first crowd funding app to end hunger. It pioneers the concept of micro-donations and it makes fundraising social, mobile and transparent. The idea is simple: with only USD 0.50 and a tap, smartphone users can feed a hungry child for a full day; users can easily see where the children are and monitor the progress being made collectively towards a specific fundraising goal.
Potential: Hunger is world's greatest solvable problem. Just think that it is just a matter of time until we will have reached a “zero hunger” world. Knowing that there are 20 times more smartphone users than hungry children in the world, makes ShareTheMeal particularly fit to accelerate this fight.