New Delhi: Advent of technology is not only enriching communication and unfolding many scientific mysteries, but also playing a key role in checking social issues. It will surprise you that your one touch on the mobile screen can feed a hungry person. Isn’t it a noble initiative by the mobile app developers?
Waste No Food, a California based organisation, has started the campaign to feed the hungry with the support of mobile application.
Mobile app named ‘Waste No Food’ can be downloaded from Google Play.
If you wish to join the movement,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wastenofood.app&hl=en
The organisation makes a chain of donors, restaurants/local NGOs, and the needy people.
Is it viable?
The application is in practice in USA. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have in place a law, called the Good Samaritan Law. This protects all donors from liability and the organizations handling the food are responsible for all liability.
How do restaurants know that the charities donating are legitimate?
In order for an organization to participate in Waste No Food, the organization must be check for authenticity. Waste No Food assures donors that only legitimate charities can access the website to secure donations.
Is it possible in India?
It will surprise you but the app is already in practice in India. Few people have already joined the programme. No Food Waste has a mobile app of the same name that allows it to collect information on hunger spots in India. The app has already identified 80 such spots in Delhi and the National Capital Region.
Like No Food Waste, many social start-ups founded by young Indians are using technology to fee
d the poor. Feeding India is one such organisation that feeds 15,000 people in 25 Indian cities, including 2,500 in Delhi.
Ankit Kawatra, 24, built a similar application ‘Feeding India App’ that allows the user to fill in the quantity of food to be donated, the number of people it can feed, and the expected pick-up time. Greater Kailash, New Delhi based start up has a group of young and passionate individuals who want to be the agents of a social change. Starting with a small team of just 5 members in August 2014, Feeding India now has more than 1500 volunteers. At present, they are working in more than 20 cities in India.
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