5 Loaves 2 Fish Feed The Hungry App

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5 Loaves 2 Fish Feed The Hungry App

$70,300.00 _Requested

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Impact / Alignment

Feasibility

Auditability

Solution

We pickup food from restaurants, and deliver to beneficiaries, orphanages. elders homes, homeless, street people, slums, low income housing.

Problem:

Good food goes in garbage. It adds to landfills, and CO2. Hungry people who could eat the food have no access. There's no way to track it.

Yes Votes:

₳ 5,262,560

No Votes:

₳ 97,817,152

Votes Cast:

242

Team

Dimitri Fernando

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

The problem

Vast amount of good food gets tossed in the garbage. It adds to landfills causing pollution and thereafter CO2 emissions and air pollution. Hungry children and people who could eat the food have no access to it.

The Solution

Create a system by which restaurants, corporate functions, Individual functions could donate their excess food which my team would collect and distribute to beneficiary locations.

Create a system whereby any social service project can establish transparency, trackability and auditability using the Blockchain.

Create a blockchain based AI driven app that can optimize multiple donor locations, figure out where best to distribute the food collected based on what the food is, and various other factors.

Create a system where freelancers and volunteers can easily join in and participate and be rewarded for their work and can exchange shifts without difficulty

Relevant experience

I have been involved in social service projects of all sorts for over 36 years, Have been on planning committees and packing teams for collecting, sorting, packing and distributing dry rations, clothing, medicines, fresh water for various weather disasters, natural disasters and in the 2004 tsunami as well as recent lockdowns. I also obtained special pass to carry out distribution of food rations from restaurants right through the curfew and lockdown.

More details

More on the problem

The allocation for a meal for a child used to be Rs 20 per day. ( 1 USD = 250 LKR so Rs 20 about 8 US cents). This became Rs 50 per day. This is inadequate for anyone let alone a growing child. Therefore most Children's Homes and Orphanages in Colombo ( the capital city) and elsewhere in Sri Lanka depend on donations. Sri Lanka is primarily a Buddhist country with significant populations of Hindu, Moslem, Catholic and Christian adherents. In all these religions there is great emphasis on doing good works in order to gain merit and thereby good karma or in order to fulfill the mandate of one's religious book. Therefore a common practice is apart from whatever personal celebration one might have of an occasion like birthday. childbirth, baptism, wedding anniversary, promotion, new job and such life events, one would give a meal to a Home. This practice is what keeps these Homes fed.

There are hundreds of restaurants in the city of Colombo. These range from food boutiques which feed the working man, to Five Star Hotel Restaurants which feed the upper class.

All these restaurants have to, by law, dispose of certain types of perishable foods at the end of lunchtime, or end of the night sales. They cannot be sold the next day. Of course certain foods can be kept for a few days, but even those have a strict expiry date whether or not they have actually expired by that time. These include breads, cakes, pastries, rice and curry lunch and dinner dishes, pizza, pasta, roast chicken, baked fish, Beef Stroganoff, vegetable salads, Caesar Salads and so on. The staff cannot even eat the food and often go hungry since its after 11pm when they go home. All this food gets tossed into the garbage.

This adds to the amount of garbage in landfills which increase CO2 Emissions. This is a total waste because this food could have been consumed by kids in childrens' homes, orphans, unwed mothers in homes, elders in homes, physically and mentally disabled individuals who are in homes and similar institutions, addicts who are in rehab institutions, slum dwellers, street dwellers, homeless people, beggars, and the list goes on.

More on the solution

Aim would be to provide this food which would otherwise be discarded, to as many of homes as possible, enabling them to eat food that's beyond the very basic meal that they get i.e. rice and vegetables or lentils.

The issues with some of the beneficiary locations are.

a. By the time the restaurant closes up and gives their excess food ( 8-9pm) these beneficiary locations have already had their dinner and even locked their gates. Therefore they wont accept food on that night

b. Even if they did accept the food for consumption the next day, they don't have enough freezer facilities to store the food to eat the next day. Therefore they would be unwilling to accept the food. Some locations are willing to receive food that can be refrigerated or frozen such as breads, pastries, short eats, pizzas and pasta.

Have multiple vehicles and dedicated staff to handle pickup from restaurants who are on board.

Find sufficient beneficiary locations to deliver the food on time, within a designated period of time, to ensure its freshness and suitability for consumption.

Scheduled pickups - Use an AI based system to track the food pickups from each restaurant. Restaurants can be on a dedicated pickup schedule if they are members and know they are going to have food available on a daily basis.

Ad hoc pickups - Some restaurants pop up stands, food trucks, who may not become members since they may not have food every day. They could use the app to request pickups from their location.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

Answer

Does this proposal fall within the scope of the challenge brief?

This proposal falls within the scope of the challenge brief because it sets up and lays out a system whereby multiple stakeholders are benefitted.

Benefits the environment by reducing food waste, reducing landfills, reducing land and air pollution by reducing CO2 Emissions

Benefits poor and hungry, orphans, elders, disabled, low income housing dwellers, street people, stray animals.

Is able to track precisely what is collected from where, and how its distributed

Provides highly satisfying employment for the distribution teams.

How the solution relate to the challenge success (Impact)

Solution will enable rapid, systematic, lowest cost capability for food collection, segregation into what goes to which beneficiary and distribution every day and night.

Does this proposal show clearly how it will add value to the Cardano System?

This project will add value to the Cardano Ecosystem by providing benefits to the environment, stakeholders such as restaurants, food donators and beneficaries.

There are various Blockchain based components here. They include

The NFT based system to tag each food packet received from a restaurant with an NFT and track that NFT to its beneficiary location and upto the moment of distribution.

The NFT that is generated in the form of a photo/video of the packages being handed to the beneficiary which can be sold on the NFT marketplace like CNFT

A new NFT marketplace whereby social causes can launch NFTs in order to generate funds through sale of unique NFTs or through minting and sale of NFTs designed to track and provide transparency and auditability to any social service or charity project

The AI driven app which can optimize route planning, pickup and drop-off scheduling in order to reduce costs and maximize productivity of limiter resources such as vehicles and staff

The NFT based system which allows freelancers and volunteers to slot in and out of shifts, times and roles and get paid exactly for what they are doing.

The NFT based system where people can buy NFTs to support purchase of a vehicle, running costs , salaries and other costs of the food runs. ( We need NFTs, DeFi, Token sales and any and all other methods to raise funds)

(this proposal)

How does the Blockchain contribute?

At each location we will generate NFTs for each package of food. That food package would be tracked using our App/AI system to its optimal beneficiary location. Factors as to which location would be such as age of beneficiaries, can they eat this particular type of food, what time do they need food dropped off and what time would gates close for the night, Do they have facilities to refrigerate or freeze this type of food, Can this food be stored, or must it be consumed on the same day/night? These NFTs can be listed on a batch minting basis on existing NFT marketplace like CNFT until our own NFT marketplace is developed.

As each package is dropped off that NFT is captured by means of photo of the beneficiary receiving the food package or box of multiple items which are identified by one single NFT. This photo would be available for purchase on our NFT marketplace which would be custom built for charity/social upliftment projects. ( Separate proposal for NFT marketplace - link given here)

A person on the blockchain can by purchasing NFTs on this marketplace can support specific families or homes / beneficiary locations who would be regular beneficiaries. IN this manner, they would be financially supporting these families.

Ideally we would be able to convert the crypto currency into USD rather than local currency to ensure that the USD would be easily convertible and not subject to the wide fluctuations of local currency.

The blockchain would also contribute through the AI driven App ( Separate proposal for AI Driven App - link given here) which would be coupled with the blockchain.

We would also have a DeFi app developed where the profits from the app would go towards running costs and further expansion of the operation. As more restaurants come on board, more vehicles would be needed and more staff needed to handle the increase in food pickups and drop offs all within the narrow window of time where the food is fresh and consumable. There is no point if the food is delivered three hours after pickup and its not safe to consume.

The blockchain will also be used to run a creative way of rewarding participants in a community type way. That is whereby they will not be treated as full time employees but rewarded for the amount of time they spend on the work, or based on achievement of certain targets or workload.

For example, instead of paying people a monthly salary and hiring them as full time staff, there could be multiple freelancers who would come in and do the quantum of work, and get rewarded based on how many 4 hour shifts they put in. The four hour shift can apply to the lunch run or the dinner run.

The four hour shift would cover their work of picking up food from designated restaurants as well as ad hoc restaurants and private donors and taking it to the designated beneficiary locations.

Each person may have a unique attendance NFT generated as they log in or clock in to work. Their work will be tracked based on time worked or targets acheived and rewards allocated.

This will allow volunteers from anywhere in the world to come and be part of this initiative. Perhaps young tourists as part of their holiday can spend some time volunteering on this project. While they won't be able to drive the vehicles they would be able to handle the pickup and distribution aspects. Even locals can become freelance volunteers and earn income for participating in pickups and distributions.

Some tourists and locals could also handle marketing aspects such as onboarding new restaurants and corporate donors, talking to prospective restaurants and corporate donors, mentoring new participants and showing them the ropes, creative work such as graphics, social media work, writing, doing posts on various social platforms, video creation for Youtube.

Benefits to Stakeholders

The benefits to the restauranteur would be as follows

As a socially conscious restauranteur they would rather not throw their excess food away. As a human being with a conscience, they care about those who don't have food to eat. That is why they are donating excess food instead of throwing it. This is why I know they will be positive about this opportunity for them to be part of a new sustainable initiative of mine. They also may not have the resources to do food runs and drop offs themselves and would rather partner with someone who would commit to doing this on a daily basis. This is what i will offer them.

If each restaurant who wants to join the "Five Loaves Two Fish " network, then they would be recognized as part of being part of this network who distributes food to the hungry and needy, through my FB page, Instagram page, Youtube channel and other media. Part of the role of the staff handling the pickup and distribution would be to capture photos and video. The restaurants are free to talk about it on their social media, other press releases and any other publicity that they want to use it for.

Benefits to the Corporate/ Charitable Foundation providing Funding

This will add huge amounts of goodwill to your company and your own staff will be motivated that their CSR project is something with so much social value and meaning. They will be motivated hugely and productivity will rise. Media publicity will result in a huge goodwill for your company resulting in rises in share value as well as increase in shareholders and market share

Benefits to the Blockchain community

This will add huge amounts of goodwill to your Community and your own community members will be motivated that their CSR project is something with so much social value and meaning. They will be motivated hugely and productivity will rise. Media publicity will result in a huge goodwill for your community resulting in rises in community value as well as increase in community members

Benefits to the Stake Pool Operator

This will add huge amounts of goodwill to your Stake Pool and your own delegators will be motivated that their CSR project is something with so much social value and meaning. They will be motivated hugely and productivity will rise. Media publicity will result in a huge goodwill for your stake pool resulting in rises in coin value as well as increase in delegators. You can also use us to set off your carbon emissions and buy our carbon credits and support us that way. This in addition to supporting our work with some portion of your profits.

Food donated by individuals, families or corporates.

A person who purchases excess food and cant eat it all can choose to have the excess food which is unopened to be donated through the AI driven app and our staff will do the pickup of that food. That food would also be delivered to a beneficiary. A family who has a birthday party. wedding reception or homecoming, anniversary party. job party, or corporate event can choose to have their excess food also donated via our App. This food would also be donated to beneficiary locations after having been picked up by staff.

Our values:

Saving good food from landfills and preventing CO2 Emissions from the food going into landfills

Why should good food be thrown and good people go hungry? Lets get the food to the people and save the earth at the same time!

Delivering innovative technology.

Creating a model of Transparency and Trackability that can be implemented with any NGO, any charity, Any socially uplifting project

Building meaningful, long-term relationships with restaurants, beneficiaries, private, corporate and NGO donors

Demonstrating professional excellence.

Empowering team-members to do their best work.

Licensing:

The software source code will be published under the permissive, open-source MIT license. All software documentation will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-4.0-International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license.

How this proposal meets Fund 9 Objectives

Prepare a group of people willing and able to make contributions to the ecosystem.

This proposal will enable many people who want to support this project to get involved in various aspects of it. Whether the development, the promotion and marketing, the operations, the financial management etc.

Turn Cardano into an open source project & attract more developers..

Making this open source would help new developers to come in and build more functionality. Not only that, it would also attract all sorts of other skillsets and motivated volunteers who love the idea of giving a few months of their life to this project

Build real-world solutions based on the Cardano blockchain.

This project to help various NFT projects such as Five Loaves Two Fish - feed the hungry, and as a use case to build a suite of solutions for charities, NGOs and any organization seeking transparency. The various apps developed can be used across a wide range of use cases.

Improve tooling to support human processes in Catalyst. Accelerate the growth and evolution of developer & app ecosystem.

There are various tools that would be built under this proposal. The operational aspect of it is detailed here. This would add immense value to the ecosystem.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Answer

We need to figure out the ways or best way to generate funds to purchase an electric vehicle to reduce fossil fuel emissions and also to qualify for carbon credits.

How to rapidly generate NFTs at pickup time since time is of the essence

How to rapidly generate photo NFTs at the point of food drop off at beneficiary location

Covid related lockdowns which would restrict food distributions

How to show the Catalyst community that they should support all efforts to provide for operational costs of this great project to feed the hungry, as well as using all possible methods to fund the purchase of an electric vehicle and other running costs.

How to overcome these challenges.

Find ways to take collective photos . or use the existing barcodes or QR codes on the food packaging to generate the NFT

Further Challenges and Contingencies

These would include another Covid variant causing lockdowns and where freelancers, volunteers or staff cannot do their job. Or else they cannot work for some reason due to illness.

Volatility of ADA may result in our being unable to meet our budgetary expenses due to rapid fall in value of ADA. The value of ADA may go down.

It takes a long time to convert ADA into local currency as its completely dependent on Binance's P2P marketplace. This can cause slowdowns or delays in getting LKR and thereby in the project implementation.

When currency is finally converted, prices of goods and services may be different from what we budgeted because prices have increased.

***How does the proposer plan to deal with these difficulties?***

How we would deal with this challenge is that we would have many alternative delivery people who can pick up the shifts of food runs if someone is unable to do so due to illness.

One way to overcome this contingency of currency volatility is to add a contingency fund of about 10% on top of the total cost. Another option is to find a trusted network of ADA holders who want to increased their investment in ADA without going through Binance P2P marketplace.

There are contingency plans in place for various outcomes whereby we would continue to work within the restrictions placed on restaurants during permitted times for distribution by the authorities. We have already got the curfew pass on multiple occasions and have a good relationship with the pass issuing authorities.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Roadmap (Feasibility)

Infrastructure , Equipment and Staff

Month 1 - Construction of a HIgh Canopy for the Toyota Hilux Single Cab which will enable food to be carried in the rear area of the Vehicle

Hire at least 2- 4 staff to run the operation.on a daily basis. Since the same two people cannot work seven days of the week, we would have at least two teams.

If we are not hiring we will need at least 4 freelancers to cover this workload

Identify full time staff or freelancers for roles such as Marketing, Admin, Creative work, Social Media etc, Onboarding and training new freelancers.

Restaurants

We will onboard at least 1-2 restaurant onto the network to commence food pickups at least once a week.

We will identify on which day or days of the week they want to be visited and plan our schedule

Beneficiary Locations

We will identify at least 3 beneficiary locations to visit. We will identify what sort of foods they want to eat and how often. Based on this we will allocate donors to these beneficiaries.

Carbon Credits

We have talked to BlockCarbon and will talk to any other Carbon credit blockchain companies in order to figure out the best way to obtain carbon credits for our operation in terms of volumes of food collected and saved from landfills. Each restaurant would possibly give 10-20kg of food each night for distribution.

If we get our operational requirements funded we will

Expand our operations from once a week to daily ie 7 nights a week

Month 1 - Construction of a HIgh Canopy for the Toyota Hilux Single Cab which will enable food to be carried in the rear area of the Vehicle

Hire at least 2- 4 staff to run the operation.on a daily basis. Since the same two people cannot work seven days of the week, we would have at least two teams.

If we are not hiring we will need at least 4 freelancers to cover this workload

Identify full time staff or freelancers for roles such as Marketing, Admin, Creative work, Social Media etc, Onboarding and training new freelancers.

We will onboard 1-3 restaurants onto the network to commence daily food pickups once Canopy is completed. We will identify how many days of the week they want to be visited and plan our schedule

We will identify at least 3 beneficiary locations to visit. We will identify what sort of foods they want to eat and how often. Based on this we will allocate donors to these beneficiaries.

Commencement of building the NFTs for pickup and NFTs at drop off functionality\

Month 2 - Completion of NFT solutions and testing phase starts

Month 3 - Testing is concluded with data analyzed for areas of improvement. If more restaurants come on board, further testing can be done to put more load on the system

Deliverables and KPI (Feasibility + auditability)

Number of restaurants onboarded

Number of food packs collected per restaurant per day

Number of food packs distributed per day

Number of NFTs generated upon pickup

Number of NFTs generated on sale

Number of NFTs sold on the CNFT marketplace

Please provide details of your team members required to complete the project.

Project Website <https://web.facebook.com/fiveloavestwofish777>

The project is already operational as you will see from the above FB page. We have already done Food distribution on several occasions of dedicated food runs apart from the daily/nightly food runs of excess food. These have been goiing on several times a week since 2018

HOW CAN WE DO MULTIPLE PROJECTS AT THE SAME TIME.

If we are considering translation projects, each language pair (e.g English to Hindi ) has one or two Master Translators and one or two Proofreaders. The Master Translators are native speakers and experienced in the translation field They would do the translation and its given to the proofreader for quality checking. Any modifications are given back to the Master Translator who then amends the text and finalizes the text. If the workload is large we would use two Master Translators and two proofreaders instead of one.

As such , since each language pair has a dedicated team we are able to concurrently do 1, 2 5 10 or 100 language pairs at the same time. NO team is working on multiple projects. Each is dedicated to their project.

Same applies to dev projects. We have teams working on each project or app. No one is overstretched for time or energy. Therefore we can confidently undertake multiple projects at the same time

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Budget (Feasibility + auditability)

Construction of Canopy and equipping the vehicle 14,000 USD (one time)

Running Costs of vehicle ( Fuel, Insurance, Maintenance/services ) daily 100km

Running Cost per km/day 1.2 USD

Running Cost per 100km/day 120 USD Daily

Running Cost per 100km 3600 USD Monthly

Staff includes 1 team of driver and loader. 1 Admin Person 1 Marketing Person 1 Social Media and Content Creation Person

Staff Cost for 5 people per day 350 USD

Staff Cost for 5 people per month 10500 USD

This is for one shift (night time) . If we bring in the collection of food in the afternoon this would double. We will start the afternoon Collection with additional funding if received in Month 4 from the Fund 10.

Totals for three months ( Night collection) = 3600*3 = 10800 USD ( Running Cost) + 10500*3= 31500 USD Staff) 42300 USD

Social Media Campaign to encourage people to donate food. 33USD per day

Monthly Cost 1000 USD

3 Month Cost 3000 USD

TOTAL 42300 plus 3000 plus 14000 ( one time cost ) plus Contingency 3000 = 62300 USD

Creation of a video documentary of the entire process 8000 USD

TOTAL 70300

Two persons on staff to handle liason with restaurants, beneficiary locations and finding of new beneficiaries and restaurants as well as all Admin work

Pricing is included in the above staff cost.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

DImitri Fernando <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrifernando777/?originalSubdomain=lk>

Active member of Catalyst Community - General ADA Holder in Catalyst Circle V3, Community Advisor in Fund 6 and 7, Veteran Community Advisor in Fund 7, VCA in Flash Assessment in Fund 7, Cardano4Climate, Cardano Creatives, Founder of South Asian Town Hall, Active in Eastern Town Hall, Pacific Town Hall, European Town hall, Catalyst Swarm, Gimbalabs Playground.

Serial Entrepreneur, INFJ, Marketer by profession, Creative by passion, Strategist, Writer, Poet, Storyteller Has background in multiple sectors and has run several companies with groundbreaking technologies in Sri Lanka. Having his first job as a department store Santa at age 12, he learnt how bringing joy to kids and the less fortunate would bring unspeakable joy to life. He worked at Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation on various radio channels under the English Service, and learnt the art of communication, presentation, audio and radio production, and program compilation. Working often in highly tense security situations due to the ever present threat of terror attack on the SLBC by the LTTE he learnt to be cool under immense pressure and not let any crisis affect him. He is a Chartered Management Accountant, and Chartered Marketer. He has also completed MBTI and FIRO-B certifications and is currently becoming an ICF accredited Coach and DISC certified trainer and consultant. He has experience in multiple sectors, including Business Development on a national scale for global brands. He has been involved in social service projects for 35 years. He has been distributing food to the hungry several times a week since July 2018. Even during lockdown he was able to get a special pass as he was engaging in essential food distribution services.

Rishantha Welikadage <https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/daforce>

RIshantha has been involved in multiple business sectors including State Government in Minnesota USA as a Hardware Technician and Entrepreneur. He has also worked in software development in the logistics industry. Being involved from the inception of a freight logistics company he grew it from 2 employees to over 30 and developed a proprietary system which was better than ready built systems available for a UK logistics and courier company.

He has obtained his MBA in Business Management from Australia and has also been involved in many Social Service organizations such as the Lions Club as well as food distribution on his own.

Uditha Bandara : <https://www.linkedin.com/in/udithabandara/>

Uditha Bandara (MVP) is an expert in specializes in Microsoft , AI and Blockchain Technologies . He is an author in AI technologies, an international speaker and the founder/CEO of Blue Chip Asia and South East Asia`s First XNA/DirectX MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

Cyrus Viccajee <https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyvic/>

Cyrus Viccaji is a specialist in developing highly curated communication films for the development sector. He draws on a broad skillset that includes reporting, cinematography, video editing, music production and theater.

This informs 12 years of experience leading teams and personally engaging with diverse stakeholders to develop genuine and persuasive original content that drives engagement and participation for his clients.

He has personally conducted close to 500 interviews of various stakeholders, from chief ministers and educational leadership to teachers, students and community members in Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pahtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan in his work for GEO News, the BBC, British Council Pakistan, Adam Smith International and Cambridge International.

Chamarie Ranasinghe <https://web.facebook.com/designerchamari>

Chamari Ranasinghe has been involved in multiple entrepreneurial businesses for the last 25 years. She is highly experienced in managing complex projects and has a skill of connecting with all strata of society and can motivate any group of people. She has a down to earth quality about her that serves her well in her social service work which also brings her closer to her passion of helping people. She is also a qualified Ayurvedic Physician.

D M Saman Chandana <https://web.facebook.com/saman.c.dissanayake>

Saman has been working in the areas of technical maintenance and management for over 20 years. His skillsets bring needed planning and operations management to the entire operations of food pickup and distribution. His involvement with various low income and marginalized communities around Colombo help him regularly bring food and other needed resources to these underserved communities

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes. Once the pilot project is a success, if more restaurants are being onboarded to reach more beneficiaries we will need more vehicles , more staff. Therefore we would need more funding.

With additional funding we can even livestream the food distribution using head mounted GoPro or other methods such as Mobile phone Live Streaming to Youtube or Facebook

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

Please describe how you will measure the progress and the development of the project?

Number of restaurants onboarded. Can be tracked by the NFT having a unique identifier for the restaurant

Number of food packs collected per restaurant per day . Can be tracked by NFTs generated from that unique ID of the restaurant per specific day.

Number of food packs distributed per day - Total number of NFTs distributed

Number of private , household, corporate donors per month - Can be tracked by NFTs and by the App

Number of NFTs generated upon pickup - Tracked via App

Number of NFTs generated on sale - Tracked via app

Number of NFTs sold on the CNFT marketplace - Obtained from stats on the marketplace

Visual Real time auditability for anyone who comes here.

Whether it's me, or a number of people working for me, we will ensure we deliver your excess food without fail to our beneficiary locations. The Restaurateur, Community Member coming here on holiday, stake pool operator or delegator coming here on holiday are welcome to join in at any time with us, to do food runs, to see where we go, how we deliver and possibly the gratitude on people's faces when they receive this food. I am sure you have seen this in the media perhaps but now you have the opportunity to see it happening every day, with food that otherwise you would have to discard. I am sure this is something you would welcome and cherish.

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

What does success for this project look like?

Getting our operational funding requirements met and ability to extend from one night a week to 7 nights per week.

Ability to increase our beneficiary locations

Ability to increase our donor base of individuals and corporates who turn to us to donate their excess food from parties and functions.

Develop a reputation as a Great Place to work and a desired place for freelancers to find part time employment and volunteers both local and foreign to do social and charitable work.

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is a new project. It is linked to several other projects in Fund 9 which are detailed below

The NFT based system to tag each food packet received from a restaurant with an NFT and track that NFT to its beneficiary location and upto the moment of distribution.

The NFT that is generated in the form of a photo/video of the packages being handed to the beneficiary which can be sold on the NFT marketplace like CNFT

The AI driven app which can optimize route planning, pickup and drop-off scheduling in order to reduce costs and maximize productivity of limiter resources such as vehicles and staff

The NFT based system which allows freelancers and volunteers to slot in and out of shifts, times and roles and get paid exactly for what they are doing.

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