Nurish

Inspiration

Nurish Inspiration Comes from many places, we have all seen the adds on TV that show hungry kids in Africa, maybe your parents have said "Finish your food their are starving kids in Africa". when in reality there are starving people in our community.

We Learned about the great work of data-kind & beacon. We realized about the resources that exists and we wanted to make a change immediately.

As we thought about the issues in our community and the increasingly difficulty to qualify for snap we know we needed to build a platform to connect the hungry with means to get fed.

What it does

Nurish is a suite that allows the hungry to easily learn view all the available data that is available. See if they still qualify for snap, help people get qualified for snap. but Nurish doesn't stop there; if a user cant qualify for snap they still deserve food support. So we give resources for the user to find available food-banks in their community. Although as we discussed and realized that some food-banks could be miles away from the food-bank or may be extremely busy, trying to meet the work requirements we went the extra mile so the needy doesn't have to, and plan to counteract this on 2 fronts.

Nurish Also includes a feature where you can request grocery food drop off and a volunteer at the food-bank or a user going throughout their day can see and coordinate grocery delivery services.

A Nurish Driver could be someone who needs a couple extra hours a week to meet the snap requirements and get back on snap.
A Nurish Driver could be someone who wants extra food from the food-bank and live near people who requested drop offs.
A Nurish Driver could be anyone who is grocery shopping and has the means to buy extra groceries for a requested drop off

The Second way we counteracted this issue is to assist with the Logistics End & built a portal for food banks to list what available Items they have and make sure well balanced meals are delivered to drop ff points via Trucks to get the food closer to the hungry. Utilizing the Field experience of teammates. Chris Katie & John!

How we built it

We built it as a joint effort using Vite for the front + Middle End and Firebase as a database storage. Allowing for rapid development & Real-time updates for our drivers and people requesting food.

Challenges we ran into

Setting Up Firebase. Finding a single problem project for us to work on and the collaboration for the broad challenge vector we were facing,

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building a solution that could help a family out today! our solution gives someone the ability to submit a grocery request and get food delivered also proud of the Firebase setups and real-time read writes

What we learned

Working As a team Firebase rules & that a brilliant project is just a few steps away if you work hard and have great teammates

What's next for Nurish

Tracking user progress so volunteer can log driving hours for volunteer hours to qualify for snap, bright future hours, or to feel good on each other.

Expand out of the greater Orlando Area to provide nourishment to the whole globe!

Work closer with food-banks actual data to perform inventory and best distribute food to locations where the hungry need it, add routing and a mobile application to make it super easy to request & deliver food for immediate support for people losing snap benefits.

Data optimizations and inventory syncs to balance out food-banks with too much donations to support drop off areas to potential food-banks lacking information.

Partner with restaurants & food-banks to help organize donations to supply our drivers and a food-bank near you!

Continuous updates to fight global hunger and support the people who need it most