Solution to the World's Hunger Problem Found! No Surprises, it's an App!
BENGALURU: It’s a challenge everyday for millions of people globally to find a place to stay. Forget proper place, people live on streets, on platforms, on diarrhea-infected streets. But this may not be the only challenge they face every day! A struggle to have something to eat is what drives them crazy. Apparently, lack of food isn't really a problem reports The Times Of India. The food striving people can be easily fed by a large quantity of food, which is wasted every day.
Good news! A smartphone application has been developed by Komal Ahmad, a California-based woman which would connect this extra food to the needy. Records show that since this application’s inception, 600,000 homeless people in the US have been fed.
Ahmad was a student at the University of California and that’s where this idea first sprang up in her mind. “I was approached by a homeless man who asked me some money so he can feed himself. I invited him over lunch and in the course of conversation with him, I got to know that he was a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq,” recalled Ahmad in an interview on The Independent website. An initiative was started by Ahmad after this incident in her college which would urge students to donate extra food to local homeless shelters.
Ahmad has come a long way since then in helping the needy as now she is the CEO of a non-profit service called Copia. The organization was previously known as Feeding Forward. Simple to use; with Copia’s app extra food can be donated to shelters that are near their area. “Companies are can inform our drivers about the pickup location of the extra food. The leftover or the extra food is then collected by the drivers and is delivered to the needy,” elaborated Ahmad.
Komal Ahmad has been getting numerous calls from many enthusiasts ever since her story was featured on CNET website. She has been approached by them to expand her initiative to other countries like Nairobi, Hong Kong and even Bengaluru.
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