Crowd Sourcing Humanitarian Relief
Hand in Hand is a platform that connects individuals directly to relief organizations with maximum transparency
With the decrease in government aid, more and more people rely on donations after a natural disaster strikes. However, people often donate items that are not needed, which creates more logisitcal challenges[1] and delay in aid[2].
Our platform solves this problem with transparency by combining registries with relief organizations. Anyone who visits the site can pick a specific site and see the items most needed by the victims. They can choose to contribute online through Amazon Smiles or monetary donation; or they can donate items locally to their nearest relief organization site.
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can view current disasters as pins on a globe
- User can select a pin/location to zoom in on and contribute
- User can select item or monetary donation
The following optional features are implemented:
- Individual Profiles for Donors and Relief Organizations
- Live tracking of relief funds/items to actual site of disaster
The following additional features are implemented:
- List anything else to improve the app functionality!
Challenges encountered while building the app.
- filtering data to include relevant natural disasters around the globe
- ArcGIS https://developers.arcgis.com/
- FEMA disaster data https://www.fema.gov/openfema-dataset-disaster-declarations-summaries-v1
- [1] http://insidedisaster.com/haiti/response/relief-challenges
- [2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/best-intentions-when-disaster-relief-brings-anything-but-relief/
Copyright [2018] [Hannah Kiesel, Rushmie Kulkarni, William Gao]
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