Why WFP and ShareTheMeal?

Three reasons.

First, scale. WFP is the largest humanitarian food organization in the world. Whatever we send them, they can spend on food quickly — no unspent-reserve build-up, no capacity constraints at our donation size. Smaller charities with better GiveWell scores exist, but they typically have capacity constraints below the scale we operate at.

Second, the per-meal cost is published. ShareTheMeal is WFP's per-meal donation platform, and their $0.80/meal figure is public, live, and audited. This lets us make the "10 meals per subscription minimum" claim in concrete terms rather than as a vague "meals are provided" framing. When we say 10 meals, we mean $8.00 ÷ $0.80.

Third, receipts. ShareTheMeal returns a unique reference number for every donation, which our subscribers can verify directly with WFP donor support. That verifiability is the whole trust mechanism this company is built on.

Tradeoffs we accept: WFP's per-meal figure is not the same as GiveWell-style cost-per-life-saved effectiveness metrics. Some effective-altruism analysts prefer more measurable programs (bed nets, deworming). We chose the vivid, per-transaction traceability of a meal donation over the maximal-effectiveness abstraction, on the reading that most of our subscribers value knowing their $8 became a specific ten-meal donation with a specific receipt more than they value optimizing for lives-saved-per-dollar.

If a different partner would materially improve our impact-per-dollar while preserving the receipt-traceability, we'd consider switching. So far, we haven't found one.