The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday took its campaign to fight world hunger to a global cinema audience with an innovative, interactive advertisement.
Billed as a world first, the advertisement that will appear in cinemas in more than 30 countries will feature an on-screen code that movie-goers can scan with their smartphones to interact on Facebook Messenger.
On Messenger, the user can then interact with the character from the advertisement who shares her story and offers a way to donate meals to hungry children through the UN agency's ShareTheMeal app.In the short clip, a woman appears at a packed news conference said to be about a breakthrough medical advance.
When she speaks, she instead reveals that she has died of hunger at age eight -- followed by the UN agency's message on how to help.
Unveiling the advertisement on the eve of the annual UN General Assembly, the World Food Programme said it wanted to find a new way to drum up support for tackling hunger, which has been rising in the world through factors that include conflict and drought.- AFP