DonateAPlate| Planet, With People
Planet, With People
DonateAPlate
Summary
DonateAPlate connects organizations that possess excess/perishing food on a regular basis (such as restaurants and event management firms) to NGO’s for the donation of this food to the under-privileged and other people in need.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Every year, an estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted globally, amounting to 2.6 trillion dollars annually, which is more than enough to feed all 815 million hungry people in the world ten times over. Although inefficient consumer habits are contributors, the majority of food waste comes from the supply chain majorly constituting distributors, retailers and restaurants. As 12th Grade High School Students from Bangalore, India, we envisioned our app DonateAPlate which allows local restaurants, supermarkets as well as individual donors to donate, daily or weekly, the excess unused food by setting up highly customizable donations through the app.
How We Developed This Project
The app was developed on Android Studio deployed on the Gradle Framework with 20,000+ Lines of code, in Java, Kotlin & XML. Various APIs such as the Google Maps & Places APIs were integrated into the app. The Backend data storage was built on Firebase and implemented FireStore, Firebase Realtime Database, Firebase User Authentication & Firebase ML.
Initially we were unsure whether we would be a able to complete the app & fully implement it in time for the submission. But at the end, everything turned out well, and we have a stunning video accompanying our completed product.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We checked out the food security page of the NASA website. It really helped us understand trends and patterns in food insecurities.
Project Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0xsHLtQRWU
Project Code
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