App of the week – Feed a refugee child for a day

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Our App of the Week is a worthy one. ShareTheMeal, an App that launched globally on Thursday by the United Nations World Food Program, aims to help feed refugee children in Jordan who are in dire need of our help.

 

The app allows you to donate as little as $0.50 to help provide food for the children – an amount that has meaning. According to calculations by the U.N. $0.50 is all it costs to feed a child in poverty for a day. The idea is, when you have a meal, you might think about sharing it, and providing a refugee child $0.50 for food for a day.

 

The app was previously tested in June this year, and the results were promising. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, more than 120,000 users provided more than 1.8 million meals to children in need in the Southern African country of Lesotho.

 

The app works very simply.

 

Download the app here, add your PayPal or bank account details and then you can donate $0.50 or over, as much as you like. You can also follow your money to see where it goes – at the moment donations from the app go to Syrian children in Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp who participate in WFP’s school meals program. There are, according to the U.N. refugee agency, more than 28,000 school age children who live in the camp.

 

 

At the time of writing, 1,974,501 ‘shared meals’ had been donated through the app. 

 

categories Uncategorized | | datetime November 13, 2015 10:18 am | comments Comments (0)

Offline Google Maps will save the day

 

Google Maps is pretty much a godsend, right? Right. And now Google’s made it an even bigger godsend. Now you can see where exactly the hell you are, and how you can get to where you actually want to be offline. Offline knowledge! knowledge is power… so offline power! Gee, Thanks Google.

 

 

Straight from the Sauce:

 

“Whereas before you could simply view an area of the map offline, now you can get turn-by-turn driving directions, search for specific destinations, and find useful information about places, like hours of operation, contact information or ratings.

 

You can download an area by searching for a city, county or country, for instance, and tapping “Download” on the resulting place sheet, or by going to “Offline Areas” in the Google Maps menu and tapping on the ‘+’ button.

 

Once downloaded, Google Maps will move into offline mode automatically when it recognizes you’re in a location with spotty service or no connectivity at all. When a connection is found, it will switch back online so you can easily access the full version of Maps, including live traffic conditions for your current route.”

 

 

 

Loading the map onto your phone and saving it can save a substantial amount of data and battery life, and give you offline power. Yes please.

 

 

 

categories Apple, Apps, Cool Features, iPhone, New Releases | | datetime 10:15 am | comments Comments (0)