Sneak Peek at the Needy App
Hey all, I've been mostly busy working on this app. It's an app for charities or donors to collect people needs and donate using crypto currency tokens on the BCH block chain.
What is this?
A mobile wallet app for needy people to submit their situation and a website to store data and for charities or givers to check needy people information and verify it then donate.
Why?
Using blockchain technology could help bring more transparency to charity work. People will directly get a fund that they can use with stores and restaurants that agrees to accept the token issued by charities.
Problem to Solve
Currently many charities are doing an extensive work by arranging purchase of goods dealing with traders, arranging logistic delivery across borders and distribution.
Many distributions are exposing people on need to long queue or huge gathering and struggle to get their shares and many times fair distribution is not guaranteed.
Running charities itself requires not so little accounting and management work, by shifting many of the struggle to local traders can reduce overhead work by charity and actually finance the shop keepers in needy people areas which may in return employee more people and reproduce wealth.
In this method instead of putting charity goods distribution against natural trade activities, it's possible to make it work with it.
Workflow
Charity issues a token in local currency on BCH network (to avoid confusion and for stability)
Charity talk with specific stores and promise to pay them for each token they get from needy people when they pay in store.
Needy person installs the app, register and fill their information then submit it. A wallet address generated by the app will be sent alongside the needy information.
Local charity verifies the information, approves it and may add a comment.
Donors go to website and exchange their Crypto with the token to his wallet
Donors can see the Needy data and decide to donate directly to the needy address and how much they got so far.
The needy check his wallet balance and then go to the local store to buy food. Local store use his wallet to sweep the qr code from the needy wallet.
Thoughts
Why the user don’t just use a wallet with token support? For poor people internet might not be available all the time, that is why I followed the qr code method when user only need internet when submitting the form or renewing the address no need to connect to internet in store or have internet subscription.
Ideas to do
page to list merchants and cash handlers addresses for better transparency.
List payment received by needy monthly based on blockchain data
Option to find a job for the needy
Option to participate in educational for the needy
Internet independent by using SMS to get information about wallets, balances and to sweep so it works like this:
shop sweep the private key
private key is sent to SMS server which take the balance and record it to the shop and send them a confirmation message with amount withdrawn
Balance update information by SMS
Interesting, thank you!