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Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

A weekly programme looking at common challenges around the world and the creative ways people are trying to tackle them.

Presenter Myra Anubi speaks to reporters, experts and innovators to investigate how effective different solutions are, share their successes and inspire listeners with what is possible.

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Cash Cards For Syrian Refugees

19/11/2016 GMT

Cash Cards for Syrian Refugees

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Is it better to give refugees money, not food?

Syrian refugees in Lebanon are being handed cash cards instead of blankets and food. Aid agencies say money transfers are a better way to deliver essential supplies to some of the 1.5 million Syrians who live in the country – they buy what they need themselves. But does it work? We meet Moussa Junaid, who fled Raqqa with his family when IS moved in, and now buys food aid for himself from the local supermarket.

Plus, a very big idea about how the US could handle mass shootings differently. And, we help out Ugandan student Martin, who gets woken every night by the motorcycle taxis outside his window. 

World Hacks is a new BBC programme that meets the people who are attempting to fix some of the world’s biggest problems. Then we figure out whether their solutions actually work.

Presented by Sahar Zand. 

(Photo: Syrian refugee with cash card)

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