PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND GOAL

 

‘INSTEAD OF CORONAVIRUS, THE HUNGER WILL KILL US. 

A GLOBAL CRISIS LOOMS – AN ARTICLE FROM NEW YORK TIMES

Due to the pandemic, not to mention the Coronavirus, the starvation emergency has additionally taken a toll on several countries. As an article by New York Times Cites, experts say that the number can rise up to 265 million. NAIROBI, Kenya — In the most important slum in Kenya’s capital, humans are determined to consume promptly a stampede at some point of the latest giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving ratings injured and humans dead. In India, hundreds of people are lining up two times an afternoon for bread and fried greens to preserve starvation at bay. And throughout Colombia, terrible families are striking purple garb and flags from their home windows and balconies as a signal that they're hungry. “We don’t have any money, and now we need to survive,” said Pauline Karushi, who lost her job at a jewelry business in Nairobi, and lives in two rooms with her child and four other relatives. “That means not eating much.”

 

To tackle this problem, only government efforts are not feasible. Individuals with technical skills should contribute smartly and safely. One such attempt to solve this problem is being done by us by creating a web-based application called ‘Hunger Harvest’.

Our application aims to solve the ever-evolving hunger crisis, especially in these times of

the Covid pandemic, especially for those amongst us for those who are not financially

stable in these difficult times. In addition, it would also stop the wastage of food by

restaurants as they buy food items and make food in bulk quantities which might go

to waste. Our application users can create an account and search amongst various

varieties of dishes that restaurants, which are registered with us, offer that day that

was not utilized/sold and will be sold at a discounted price. After ordering, the

customer can either pay by cash or card, and a delivery person will be informed for

pickup from the restaurant and get it delivered to the customer. In addition, our

application also provides a map system, order tracking, and rating service.

This will benefit both the customer and restaurant as the customer can get

it for free or at a very low price and the restaurant doesn’t face food wastage

issues. During the development of the project five stages of SDLC that are

inception, design, implementation, maintenance and audit would be followed.

KEY Functionalities Of the App:

• Users can create their accounts by registration and login.
• Users can search food items by sorting/ filtering based on distance/ reviews.
• Users can do the payment via cash or card
• Once the order is confirmed, the system informs the delivery guy for pickup and delivery.
• Other functionalities include mapping, order tracking, feedback/rating of the restaurant, and delivery person.
• Inventory Management, where the restaurant can update/add /remove food items

List of Tools used for this software:

• Version control- Github
• IDE- VS CODE
• Programming- MERN stack
• Process Management Tool: JIRA
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PROJECT BREAKDOWN:

For the Full-stack application, the workload has been divided into 3 phases/sprints where the objectives would be pre-decided and a backlog will be created on everyone's performance and what objectives were failed to achieve by the team and their rectification in upcoming sprints. 

Sprint 1: The primary objective of sprint 1 is to develop the front-end side of the application with at least one functionality in a working capacity. 

Sprint 2: The primary objective of sprint 2 is to almost complete the project work which consists of backend and database integration with at least 4-5 functionalities in working condition.

Sprint 3: As most of the work would be completed by sprint 2, the objective would be to complete the remaining sections as well as to beautify the website and perform its testing and validation.