World Food Programme pins hopes on app to nourish 20,000 Syrian children

Optimism surrounds roll-out of ShareTheMeal smartphone app after summer trial provides 1.7m meals for school children in Lesotho

The World Food Programme (WFP) is banking on technology, generosity and busy thumbs to help it feed some of the 600,000 Syrian refugee children who have been forced from their homeland by the country's four-year civil war.

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