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Inspiration
Recently, COVID-19 has been on everyone's minds. For a lucky few, life goes on relatively the same. For most, however, they are now battling new challenges like how to pay rent, what to do if they are unemployed, how to get their next meal, etc. This global pandemic has raised so many different types of challenges, as well as solutions. My team wanted to contribute to solving one of the issues created or aggravated by this pandemic. Because we are no healthcare experts, we decided to focus on a way to connect people who can help with people who need help.
What it does
We decided to focus on the issue of a possible food pandemic caused by COVID-19. Millions already experience hunger or financial difficulties getting food daily, and this will only become worse as the world feels the effects of COVID-19. Our platform, FoodList, connects food banks, soup kitchens, charities, and anyone with spare food, with those in need of food. Users who have food to donate can create posts advertising their food items, and these will be viewed by those looking for food. The posts shown to each user are based on the location of the user, in order to make the exchange of food practical. Interested users can message the poster through our website to ask questions or discuss food exchange details. The food exchange will be done according to how both giver and receiver want it, whether that be by delivery or pick-up at a certain location. Either way, these will be no-contact exchanges in order to comply with anti-COVID-19 precautions.
How we built it
We used Bootstrap Studio to build the main interface of our website, and Javascript as part of our back end.
Challenges we ran into
6 hours into the hackathon, one of our teammates pulled out. We were already nervous about the hackathon since the majority of us were programming beginners and hackathon newbies, and this only lowered our morale even more. Despite this, we pushed ourselves to make something we could submit in order to prove to ourselves that we could do it. In addition, we realised we had to make many compromises with our website due to the time limit.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of getting a submission together, because it makes our project seem official!
What we learned
We learned that there are many ways to help during this pandemic, not just by combating the disease directly, but also through helping social and welfare issues brought up during this time. We also learnt that it's hard work designing and implementing a website in a short time!
What's next for FoodList
We hope to turn this into a fully-functioning website that people can rely on in times of need.
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