Harvestr is a tool that helps address the issue of hunger in Auckland.
Every year, over 50% of food gets wasted or thrown away in some way. Recently in New Zealand, the nonprofit KiwiHarvest launched to redistribute surplus nutritious food to Kiwis in need.
This app aims to help KiwiHarvest’s volunteers keep track of all off the supermarkets and food banks contributing to the nonprofit’s good work. This app:
- Presents a list of the day’s food pickups and deliveries, along with details and a map showing each stop's location
- Provides details about all the partners (donors and food banks) that donate and accept redistributed food
- Enables operations volunteers to add a new partner to the database
- Allows ops volunteers to add a new delivery
- Provides drivers with a driving route to every pick up and delivery
- Helps ops confirm when a delivery is complete by drivers en route
- Tracks the weight of all the pickups and dropoffs for the day
Harvestr is a project by Enspiral Dev Academy Auckland’s Kahikatea cohort, created over a six-day hackathon. The team members include:
- Tim Cooms (@cooms)
- Andrew Hird (@Andrew-Hird)
- Tealiie Le (@tealiie)
- Sam Mentink (@sam-mentink)
- Jaive Smare (@JaivePNG)
- Tina Trenkner-Meade (@tina-trenkner)