https://github.com/samuelschlesinger/fneeds

https://github.com/samuelschlesinger/fneeds

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/samuelschlesinger/fneeds
• Owner: SamuelSchlesinger
• Created: 2021-12-23T06:10:23.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-12-23T13:10:05.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-27T19:10:53.803Z (2 months ago)
• Language: HTML
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# fneeds

In long form, Food Needs, but pronounced /fnEEdz/, this project is about

providing a way for people to report their nutritional needs and be directly

aided by a community of loving people who want to end hunger. Sadly, we live in

a world where smart phones have a lot more penetration than food. Because of

this, we can design digital systems to attempt to orchestrate the purchasing

and delivery of food for the needy.

Much of this document will be targeted at the United States, as that is the

context I am familiar with and affected by. If this project can be expanded to

other locations in the world, I am very open to it.

## Who is Hungry?

According to the USDA, 10.5% of American households had some amount of food

insecurity in 2020. 35.3% of households with incomes below the Federal poverty

line were food insecure. Rates of food insecurity were even worse for single

parents, Black and Hispanic households, and hit the urban and rural regions

worse than the suburbs. 14.8% of households with children were affected by food

insecurity, impacting the children in about half of the cases. Food insecurity

is especially prevalent in the Southern United States, with Texas, Lousiana,

New Mexico, Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia being the

states with food insecurity higher than the national averages.

## Why are they Hungry?

There are many reasons why people in the US are hungry today. Ranging from lack

of access to healthy food in food deserts to lack of income, in general the

economy is not healthy enough to provide adequate food supplies to those who

need it. On the other hand, it seems absolutely clear that we are able to produce

enough food to do so.

## What can we do?

Well, my idea is to simply make a registry where people can register their

requests for sustenance, along with accounts of their personal circumstances,

and other users can dedicate some amount of their personal resources or time to

help people get the food they need. The aim is to create a platform upon which

those who can supply direct aid to those who need it are able to do so.