Created on 20th February 2022
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Donateum is an initiative towards hunger eradication.
It is a mobile application that connects companies to NGOs and various social service organizations.
Many companies that produce food products have surplus products with a lesser shelf life remaining before they expire. These products are not accepted by retailers and often go to waste.
Such products can be donated by the companies to NGOs using our application.
Donateum can also be used by companies to fulfill their corporate social responsibilities (CSR). It helps them find suitable and credible organizations for CSR activities.
Donateum also aims to connect NGOs together to increase their cumulative reach and the scope of collaborations.
We tried fetching the user location using IP Address but the location wasn't accurate so we switched to Google Maps API through which we could get the user's exact GPS Geolocation.
Using Google Maps API, we could also mark the locations of NGOs on an interactive map which proved to be more user friendly.
We were using SQL database earlier but we later switched to Google's Firebase which proved to be more helpful.
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