Wednesday 21 August 2013

Charity Food Packing

I have been following Project Awareness on Facebook.  Among the many post, I really like this phrase "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself".  From Project Awareness Facebook page, I can see that there are many people that we can care for, just within the neighbourhood.  I think most people care and willing to offer help.  However, we may not know who they are but I am sure if we knows, we will be more than willing to offer a helping hand or give them something they need or wish for.

Happiness is a perfume

For many old folks, good old food brings back fond memories and they wish to visit their favourite food stall.  However, they may not be able to enjoy their favourite food due to many reasons such as poverty, inability to move around, etc.  How nice if some kind soul can help to pack food for them?  A pack of food can be more than just food... it is a "food connection" if the packer also spend time chatting with the old folks.

I believe that I can contribute in providing a "food connection" platform between these old folks and people who are kind enough to offer help.  I have created HappyPacker App as an initiative to promote community food packing at a small token fee.  I am planning to extend it to feature charity food packing.  For this to work, I need help from voluntary organisation to identify the people that need food.  The volunteers also helps to ensure that there is no duplicate packing to avoid food wastage.  

HappyPacker is currently available on Apple Appstore for iPhone.  However, the current version does not support have the new feature yet.  I plan to launch the following feature if I can find a social enterprise to work with.

These are the 5 simples steps in posting a food packing request, which can be discussed and refined.
Step 1. Volunteer to setup profile of
food pack recipient
Step 2. Choose a profile picture
Step 3. Volunteer post Following
on food.
Step 4. Packers see the post and
contact volunteer for details.
Step 5. Packer send SMS to volunteer
and the volunteer coordinates to
make sure no duplicate food packings.

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