The problem APEKSHA solves

The problem APEKSHA solves
According to the FAO estimates in ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2020 report, 189.2 million people are undernourished in India. By this measure, 14% of the population of India is fighting from hunger and poor nutrition. We plan to bring a change in these numbers. However, we need the support from NGOs all over the country to help in the collection and distribution of food from various sources.

Currently, about 189.6 million people in India go to bed without two square meals a day. We plan to tackle this by creating a portal where people can book slots for party halls and banquets and whatever food is left at these bookings will reach the people in need. Thus, we plan to minimize food wastage as well as manage garbage disposal.

The total number of slots available for a hall is published by individual halls on a daily basis. Each user has 6 Tokens in total. A user can choose to visit any location and this would cost 1 token, in exchange they get a ticket for the given slot. This way users can book slots.

Our app works on the concept of bringing those who require food to the institutions that are willing to donate it. We have used the concepts of Web3, polygon, Moralis, Metamask wallet, MongoDB to implement the backbone, i.e., backend of the project. Our web application is fully decentralized because of the use of IPFS.

To do this, we would require support from local NGOs, to help the people get added to the platform and to assist them in getting tokens and tickets. These tickets are presented as NFTs which are minted for the user and can be used for verification.

Challenges we ran into

The challenges were big but not unsolvable.

•We had to learn the working of smart contracts and how web3 actually works.
•Using Moralis to implement the Web3 infrastructure.
•Using IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) as a decentralized storage to store the events which are being hosted, with the
purpose of food distribution.
•Generating and posting NFTs in a way its authenticity can be maintained.
•A robust design to encompass the whole idea of the platform.
•Creating a strong logistic strategy to get people to the food and not let it go to waste.

Due to this idea having very big aspirations and goals, we achieved major milestones in our project and the entire team learned a lot along the way.