Today’s Solutions: July 09, 2025

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has responded to a funding crunch by developing a mobile app that lets people around the world donate money to help feed the 4 million displaced Syrians living in neighboring countries. Developed by a start-up in Berlin, the app ‘Share the Meal’ is touted as the first of its kind, allowing people to fund food rations for WFP initiatives in Jordan, to which many of the people escaping Syria’s civil war have fled. The new app, available for both the iPhone and Android devices, offers food donations from $0.50 a day for a …

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