Charity

Inspiration 💡

The controversy in 2020 that the WE Charity was funneling $900 million in federal COVID relief for students [1], was extremely detrimental to the charity sector as people began to lose trust in these organizations as they began to rightly ask questions related to a charity's governance, finance, lobbying, conflicts of interest, salaries and structure.

I began to realize that a pain point many prospective donators face is whether there will be transparency in if their money will go to the people they are donating to. Which is why I realized this lack of transparent accountability could be solved by using the blockchain which will result in promoting donator trust for charitable organizations.

What it does 🔍

Charity is my solution to solve the distrust some people might have with charitable organizations to promote donations to people in need.

How I built it ⚙️

The Charity front end was built on React, Vite and CSS.

The Charity back end was coded in Solidity, and deployed on an Ethereum

Challenges I ran into 🚧

Many many challenges. To start off, I was not very familiar with these technologies, meaning I had to learn everything from scratch. The frontend was an incredible learning experience. I had previous experience with Next.js, but I really wanted to try something new so I decided to use Vite for this project.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of ✔️

I am extremely proud of overcoming the seemingly endless stream of difficulties that come with using new, cutting edge technologies. However, I was most proud of the meaning of this project I have met many people who refuse to donate to charities, saying how most of the money is taken by administrative costs. However after building this project all those excuses are null, since there is now complete transparency in a charities finance. All in all, I am proud to be an innovator, exploring the uncharted territories, and using it for the benefit of society!

What I learned 📚

I can wholeheartedly say that I have come out with significantly more knowledge compared to when I came in! For starters, before I even began designing this project,I learned many core skills, imperative to a software developer. Whether it’s learning to navigate extremely new documentation, or implementing a completely new smart contract within a short time span, or to invent an innovative way to fix deep rooted societal problems. I can confidently say that I have inarguably become a better developer throughout Deltahacks!