There’s an app for all the pieces. So why not one to resolve starvation? That is why 4 college students from Dallas ISD’s Faculty for the Gifted and Gifted created FoodNex.
“Only a group of youngsters at a highschool,” TAG senior Ben Peckham mentioned. “We may tackle a difficulty so difficult as meals waste.”
‘After we volunteered at these areas, there can be weekly meals distribution occasions to households and by the top of the occasion, we might usually, like, run out of meals,” TAG senior Dat Tran mentioned. “That, like, actually damage my coronary heart as a result of they would not obtain the meals that they wanted.”
For Tran, it was private.
“I used to be an immigrant from Vietnam,” Tran mentioned. “Rising up, it was a wrestle for me and my household.”
So Tran and Peckham, together with classmate Akhil Peddikuppa, and DISD grad Vedant Tapiavala created the FoodNex app.
“So FoodNex is a cell app that connects companies with further meals to starvation help organizations like meals pantries and meals banks,” Peddikuppa mentioned.
It really works like a relationship app for many who have meals to donate, and organizations in want of meals to distribute.
“I additionally took a category on meals throughout my first semester at Dartmouth,” DISD grad, now Dartmouth Faculty freshman Tapiavala mentioned. “Noticed a whole lot of stunning statistics about how prevalent and situation meals waste is.”
An estimated 119 billion kilos of meals is wasted within the U.S. yearly, a lot of it as a result of it is nearing expiration.
“If we may simply reroute that meals to the individuals who wanted it, that would simply finish meals insecurity,” Peckham mentioned.
Dartmouth helped fund the FoodNex app, which has been utilized in North Texas, the San Francisco Bay Space, and Minneapolis to assist distribute about 70,000 kilos of meals thus far. The scholars hope to scale using the app nationwide.
