eatBCH is a charitable cause launched with the aim to help feed individuals who live in Venezuela’s struggling economy through donations in Bitcoin Cash (BCH). After initially launching in Venezuela, eatBCH was also launched in South Sudan to bring the “peer-to-peer electronic cash-to-food system” to the central African nation.
To find out more about the eatBCH initiative in South Sudan, BitcoinAfrica.io spoke to one of the organization’s volunteers, Garang Deng.
eatBCH is a charitable cause launched with the aim to help feed individuals who live in Venezuela’s struggling economy through donations in Bitcoin Cash (BCH). After initially launching in Venezuela, eatBCH was also launched in South Sudan to bring the “peer-to-peer electronic cash-to-food system” to the central African nation.
To find out more about the eatBCH initiative in South Sudan, BitcoinAfrica.io spoke to one of the organization’s volunteers, Garang Deng.
eatBCH in South Sudan
In a conversation over Telegram, Garang Deng told BitcoinAfrica.io that the eatBCH South Sudan team, which works on a volunteer basis, was inspired by the initiative’s impact in Venezuela after which a team member got in touch with eatBCH Venezuela to find out more how the charitable cause was run in the South American country.
After several of today’s team members attended the Africa Blockchain Conference in Kampala in May 2018, the group decided to launch an eatBCH initiative in South Sudan.
“We launched it there and got our first donation, and we bought some food items on our way back home,” Deng explained.
Since there are no businesses or vendors that accept bitcoin cash and no local cryptocurrency exchanges in South Sudan, the eatBCH team uses Ugandan exchange Coinpesa to convert the BCH to mobile money, which it then uses to make its food purchases.
“We started the charity part-time on weekends in the capital, Juba, in our neighborhood and then expanded to some of the most affected areas by the conflict, such as the town of Yei or Bor. There, we were able to feed over 500 internally displaced people, mostly the elderly and children. We were able to do that through our colleagues whom we trained after coming back from the blockchain conference,” Deng elaborated.
Since May 2018, the eatBCH South Sudan initiative has managed to raise over $10,000 said, Deng.
More to Come
Future plans of eatBCH in South Sudan are “to teach people to use this money to improve their lives not only for feeding but to trade with it. Also, we are planning to send these kids who work on the streets to school if we are able to get the support we need.”
Anyone that is interested in contributing to the charitable cause on a voluntary basis is welcome to do so. Currently, the broader team includes students from high schools and colleges who help to distribute the food to children and the elderly.
We get several examples to help mankind in different ways. Many religions also promote Humanity through Guidance.
Like for Muslims God said:
"Help one another in acts of piety and righteousness."
For Christians in the holy bible:
"God calls Christians to pour themselves out for others."
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.”
In Judaism it is mention in Taurat:
"Human life should be valued and considered as sacred and God-given."
This is the live example among many other highlighted charity work. But in this work, they use Bitcoin cash which helps us to grow worldwide & aware people of this new digital currency revolution.