MealShare

Team MealShare's biggest inspiration is Vassar's own Challah for Hunger (CfH) chapter. In CfH, students aim to give back to the community by donating the proceeds of their bakes to Dutchess Outreach, a local agency that runs a soup kitchen and food pantry and provides other services for those in need in the Poughkeepsie area. In addition, we have identified two major issues with the way people donate to charity. The first is a lack of control in regards to where your donation is used and the second is a scarcity of personal connection between both parties involved. We sought to address these issues in our web app MealShare. Some of our major accomplishments include building a very functional demo with live real-time updates between the donor and requester interfaces! What's next for us is implementing a real payment system and connection with postal service to deliver donations and purchases.