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<u>More on the problem</u>

The allocation for a meal for a child used to be Rs 20 per day. ( 1 USD = 250 LKR so Rs 20 about 8 US cents). This became Rs 50 per day. This is inadequate for anyone let alone a growing child. Therefore most Children's Homes and Orphanages in Colombo ( the capital city) and elsewhere in Sri Lanka depend on donations. Sri Lanka is primarily a Buddhist country with significant populations of Hindu, Moslem, Catholic and Christian adherents. In all these religions there is great emphasis on doing good works in order to gain merit and thereby good karma or in order to fulfill the mandate of one's religious book. Therefore a common practice is apart from whatever personal celebration one might have of an occasion like birthday. childbirth, baptism, wedding anniversary, promotion, new job and such life events, one would give a meal to a Home. This practice is what keeps these Homes fed.

There are hundreds of restaurants in the city of Colombo. These range from food boutiques which feed the working man, to Five Star Hotel Restaurants which feed the upper class.

All these restaurants have to, by law, dispose of certain types of perishable foods at the end of lunchtime, or end of the night sales. They cannot be sold the next day. Of course certain foods can be kept for a few days, but even those have a strict expiry date whether or not they have actually expired by that time. These include breads, cakes, pastries, rice and curry, lunch and dinner dishes, pizza, pasta, roast chicken, baked fish, Beef Stroganoff, vegetable salads, Caesar Salads and so on. The staff cannot even eat the food and often go hungry since its after 11pm when they go home. All this food gets tossed into the garbage.

This adds to the amount of garbage in landfills which increase CO2 Emissions. This is a total waste because this food could have been consumed by kids in childrens' homes, orphans, unwed mothers in homes, elders in homes, physically and mentally disabled individuals who are in homes and similar institutions, addicts who are in rehab institutions, slum dwellers, street dwellers, homeless people, beggars, and the list goes on.

We don't have full time staff. If we are to use freelancers we don't have a proper system to enable them to join in on particular shifts when they're available, or for them to exchange shifts with each other. We don't have a way to track the shifts they do and pay them for their time and work. At the moment this is done manually.

<u>More on the solution</u>

Aim of this proposal is to build a Cardano based solution to easily enable freelancers or volunteers to pickup a shift and also to swap shifts when they need to. When payment is due, their working hours would be easily identifiable as well as the roles they have played during those hours.

Overall aim would be to provide this food which would otherwise be discarded, to as many homes as possible, enabling them to eat food that's beyond the very basic meal that they get i.e. rice and vegetables or lentils.

Have multiple vehicles and dedicated staff to handle pickup from restaurants who are on board. These staff or freelancers can easily swap shifts and be paid in a transparent and simple manner.

Find sufficient beneficiary locations to deliver the food on time, within a designated period of time, to ensure its freshness and suitability for consumption.

Scheduled pickups - Use an AI based system ( Proposal Link here) to track the food pickups from each restaurant. Restaurants can be on a dedicated pickup schedule if they are members and know they are going to have food available on a daily basis.

Ad hoc pickups - Some restaurants pop up stands, food trucks, who may not become members since they may not have food every day. They could use the app to request pickups from their location.

<u>Benefits to Stakeholders</u>

<u>The benefits to the restaurateur would be as follows</u>

As a socially conscious restaurateur they would rather not throw their excess food away. As a human being with a conscience, they care about those who don't have food to eat. That is why they are donating excess food instead of throwing it. This is why I know they will be positive about this opportunity for them to be part of a new sustainable initiative of mine. They also may not have the resources to do food runs and drop offs themselves and would rather partner with someone who would commit to doing this on a daily basis. This is what I will offer them.

If each restaurant wants to join the "Five Loaves Two Fish " network, then they would be recognized as part of this network who distributes food to the hungry and needy, through my FB page, Instagram page, Youtube channel and other media. Part of the role of the staff handling the pickup and distribution would be to capture photos and video. The restaurants are free to talk about it on their social media, other press releases and any other publicity that they want to use it for.

<u>Benefits to the Blockchain community</u>

This will add huge amounts of goodwill to your Community and your own community members will be motivated that their CSR project is something with so much social value and meaning. They will be motivated hugely and productivity will rise. Media publicity will result in a huge goodwill for your community resulting in rises in community value as well as increase in community members

<u>Benefits to the Stake Pool Operator</u>

This will add huge amounts of goodwill to your Stake Pool and your own delegators will be motivated that their CSR project is something with so much social value and meaning. They will be motivated hugely and delegation will rise. Media publicity will result in a huge goodwill for your stake pool resulting in increase in delegators and as a result more rewards. You can also use us to set off your carbon emissions and buy our carbon credits and support us that way. This in addition to supporting our work with some portion of your profits. There is no funding provided for day to day operational costs of this project thus far which is where your contributions would play a great part.

<u>Food donated by individuals, families or corporates.</u>

A person who purchases excess food and can't eat it all can choose to have the excess food which is unopened to be donated through the AI driven app and our staff will do the pickup of that food. That food would also be delivered to a beneficiary. A family who has a birthday party. wedding reception or homecoming, anniversary party. a job party, or corporate event can choose to have their excess food also donated via our App. This food would also be donated to beneficiary locations after having been picked up by staff. This food pickup also would be managed by the App

<u>Our values:</u>

Saving good food from landfills and preventing CO2 Emissions from the food going into landfills

Why should good food be thrown and good people go hungry? Let's get the food to the people and save the earth at the same time!

Delivering innovative technology. - Tracking of food from pickup to drop off

Creating a model of Transparency and Trackability that can be implemented with any NGO, any charity, Any socially uplifting project

Building meaningful, long-term relationships with restaurants, beneficiaries, private, corporate and NGO donors

Demonstrating professional excellence.

Empowering team-members to do their best work and be the best versions of themselves as possible.

Creating opportunities for freelancers to easily work part time, and volunteers to effectively meet their volunteering goals and objectives.

Becoming a desired place of work for freelancers and volunteers

We don't foresee additional funding being needed for this programme since we have clearly defined the functionality of the NFT generating at each stage of worker transfer and registration. If further funding is needed we will take it out of our own funds and make an application in Fund 9.

<u>Does this proposal fall within the scope of the challenge brief?</u>

This proposal falls within the scope of the challenge brief because it sets up and lays out a system whereby multiple stakeholders are benefitted.

Creates a real time system which enables freelancers or volunteers to pick up a shift and also to swap shifts when they need to. When payment is due, their working hours would be easily identifiable as well as the roles they have played during those hours

This creates transparency in payments of salaries, wages and payments and can be replicated in any business involving full time staff, freelancers or volunteers.

Benefits the environment by reducing food waste, reducing landfills, reducing land and air pollution by reducing CO2 Emissions

Benefits poor and hungry, orphans, elders, disabled, low income housing dwellers, street people, stray animals.

Provides highly satisfying employment for the distribution teams. Enabling maximum flexibility in terms of shifts and ability to take on as much volunteer or paid work as a worker wants.

<u>How the solution relate to the challenge success (Impact)</u>

Solution will enable rapid, systematic, lowest cost capability for food collection, segregation into what goes to which beneficiary and distribution every day and night. It will enable Transparency, Trackability and Auditability for every stage of payments to workers of the operation. It can also be replicated in any situation involving delivery of goods or services or any NGO or charity involving volunteers or freelancers. It can be used in businesses which involve freelancers as well as media outlets like Radio and TV stations, newspapers and magazines where people are on a roster and can swap shifts.

<u>Does this proposal show clearly how it will add value to the Cardano System?</u>

This project will add value to the Cardano Ecosystem by providing benefits to the environment, stakeholders such as restaurants, food donors and beneficiaries. It will also be a model by which any organization can easily achieve Transparency, Trackability and Auditability in managing their workforce

<u>There are various Blockchain based components here. They include</u>

The NFT based system will be as follows

A Date and Time NFT. This will be created for each date and time. The time could be hourly or shift based, depending on rates paid being hourly or shift based. Let's say they are hourly. So every hour will have a different NFT. If each shift is taken as a block then a 2 hour shift would have an NFT.

Each worker will have a unique Worker ID NFT

Each Role will have a Role NFT.

The Worker NFTs will also be linked to Location Services to identify whether a person is in the right location to be picked up by the vehicle which is supposed to pick him up.

The Role NFT corresponds to every role. So the roles for a shift could include

1 team of driver and loader. Transportation NFT

1 Admin Person Admin NFT

1 Marketing Person Marketing NFT

1 Social Media and Content Creation Person Social Media NFT

People are able to pick up shifts by connecting through the system their ID NFT to the role NFT and the Date/Time NFT. They will be able to swap by handing off the role NFT and a Date/Time NFT away from their own NFT to the other person’s ID NFT. In other words the system will remove the Role NFT and Date /TIme NFT from the Giver’s ID NFT and allocate it to the Receiver’s ID NFT. There would be a smart contract connected to each of these NFTs.

So lets say the Marketing NFT is having a rate of 20$ per hour. If someone is doing the work of marketing for 3 hours on a day, his ID NFT will be tied to the Marketing NFT and the Day/Time NFT for marketing. The Day/TIme NFT for Transportation will be on a different schedule. Therefore the rates for Transportation work may be different from rates for Marketing work. So the Transportation NFT may have a rate of 20$ per 2 hour shift. So if a person has worked 4 shifts for a week, the system will recognize that his ID NFT was tied to the Transportation NFT on 4 separate Date/Time NFTs..

The smart contracts would have the rates applicable for the respective roles and calculate their earnings accordingly.

Also the system would ensure that one person does not hold more than one Role NFT for the same Date/Time NFT. In other words a person cannot be working as a Transport person as well as Marketing person within the same Date/Time. The Role NFTs and Day/TIme NFTs for a particular Role can only be held by one person at a time.

The system will also allow freelancers or volunteers to take photos of themselves doing the job using the app. The app will certify these photos that these freelancers or volunteers ( certified by name NFT) were in fact carrying out the work they had said they were doing. The Freelancers or Volunteers can then sell this on an NFT marketplace. The revenue would be shared on a 85% to freelancer and 15% back to Five Loaves Two Fish.

<u>How would I measure the impact of this project?</u>

Number of restaurants onboarded

Number of food packs collected per restaurant per day

Number of food packs distributed per day

Number of NFTs handled of each role by freelancers or volunteers

Number of NFTs handled on each day by freelancers or volunteers

Number of Freelancers or volunteers working

<u>How will the outcomes of your project be communicated or marketed once completed?</u>

Once we are ready to onboard restaurants we would go to the Colombo City Restaurants Collective who have 57 restaurants ( https://web.facebook.com/ccrcsl/?_rdc=1&_rdr)) . We have already spoken to them and many of them are keen to join the effort since they also are able to be seen as socially and environmentally conscious restaurants, and thereby increase their goodwill among customers.

At the same time we would quickly onboard several beneficiaries we have already identified.

We will also have massive social media and mass media campaigns encouraging people to make use of the system to donate their excess food from parties, weddings, corporate functions etc

We will offer opportunities for school leavers, school goers seeking part time jobs, university students seeking freelance employment when they dont have classes, foreign volunteers who come from overseas to take part in charitable projects.

<u>Can this project be scaled to address future challenges?</u>

The proposal can be scaled to address future challenges by bringing on board more restaurants, and more corporate donors, households. It can also scale up by increasing the frequency of delivery from once a week to daily. It can also bring in more freelancers or volunteers who may come from abroad and be part of this operation

<u>Will the project have a positive impact on the Cardano system?</u>

This project will have a positive impact on the Cardano system because it will enable any business to effectively manage their freelancers and volunteers in a cost effective manner, with minimal or no disruption to the schedule .

<u>Challenges and risks relevant to a successful implementation might include</u>

How to rapidly generate photo NFTs at the point of food drop off at beneficiary location

Covid related lockdowns which would restrict food distributions

Fuel Price increases

How to rapidly transfer NFTs between staff members since time is of the essence

Ensure no misuse of the system. People taking on shifts without doing the shift.

<u>How to overcome these challenges.</u>

Find ways to do NFT transfers with an OTP functionality which sends a code to the previous holder of the NFT and they by entering the code, also enter into the record as having transferred the NFT to the new holder.

<u>Further Challenges and Contingencies</u>

These would include another Covid variant causing lockdowns and where our people cannot work for some reason due to illness.

Volatility of ADA may result in our being unable to meet our budgetary expenses due to rapid fall in value of ADA. The value of ADA may go down.

It takes a long time to convert ADA into local currency as its completely dependent on Binance's P2P marketplace. This can cause slowdowns or delays in getting LKR and thereby in the project implementation.

When currency is finally converted, prices of goods and services may be different from what we budgeted because prices have increased.

<u>How to overcome these challenges.</u>

Seek to identify as many variables as possible at the app planning and development stage.

Obtain special passes needed to do food distribution as soon as lockdowns happen.

We would have many alternative delivery people and office staff who can pick up the shifts of food runs if someone is unable to do so due to illness.

One way to overcome this contingency of currency volatility is to add a contingency fund of about 10% on top of the total cost. Another option is to find a trusted network of ADA holders who want to increased their investment in ADA without going through Binance P2P marketplace.

There are contingency plans in place for various outcomes whereby we would continue to work within the restrictions placed on restaurants during permitted times for distribution by the authorities. We have already got the curfew pass on multiple occasions and have a good relationship with the pass issuing authorities.

<u>Restaurants</u>

We will onboard at least 1-2 restaurants onto the network to commence food pickups at least once a week.

We will identify on which day or days of the week they want to be visited and plan our schedule

<u>Beneficiary Locations</u>

We will identify at least 3 beneficiary locations to visit. We will identify what sort of foods they want to eat and how often. Based on this we will allocate donors to these beneficiaries.

<u>Carbon Credits</u>

We have talked to BlockCarbon and will talk to any other Carbon credit blockchain companies in order to figure out the best way to obtain carbon credits for our operation in terms of volumes of food collected and saved from landfills. Each restaurant would possibly give 10-20kg of food each night for distribution.

If we get our operational requirements funded (Proposal Link Here) we will

Expand our operations from once a week to daily ie 7 nights a week

Month 1 - Construction of a HIgh Canopy for the Toyota Hilux Single Cab which will enable food to be carried in the rear area of the Vehicle

Hire at least 2- 4 staff to run the operation.on a daily basis. Since the same two people cannot work seven days of the week, we would have at least two teams.

If we are not hiring we will need at least 4 freelancers to cover this workload

Identify full time staff or freelancers for roles such as Marketing, Admin, Creative work, Social Media etc, Onboarding and training new freelancers.

We will onboard 1-3 restaurants onto the network to commence daily food pickups once Canopy is completed. We will identify how many days of the week they want to be visited and plan our schedule

We will identify at least 3 beneficiary locations to visit. We will identify what sort of foods they want to eat and how often. Based on this we will allocate donors to these beneficiaries.

Commencement of building the NFTs forDate/Time , Roles, Worker ID

Month 2 - Completion of NFT solutions and testing phase starts

Month 3 - Testing is concluded with data analyzed for areas of improvement. If more restaurants come on board, further testing can be done to put more load on the system

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<u>How would I measure the impact of this project?</u>

Number of restaurants onboarded

Number of food packs collected per restaurant per day

Number of food packs distributed per day

Number of NFTs handled of each role by freelancers or volunteers

Number of NFTs handled on each day by freelancers or volunteers

Number of Freelancers or volunteers working

<u>Budget</u>

Creation and Deployment of NFT based Tracking System .

Creating the NFT based system for freelancers 10000 USD.

At the point of drop off at Beneficiary Location a photo is taken of food drop off which becomes an NFT . Freelancers can take photos of themselves, make it into their own NFT and can be sold on a NFT marketplace. This brings revenue to freelancers as well as to the cause.

Proceeds from the sale of this NFT can go towards funding the operational costs of the food distribution. 10000 USD

Social Media Campaign to promote this to other organizations and NGOs. 2000 USD

Administration and Management for first three months 5150 USD

Contingency 2500 USD

Total 29650 USD

Budget Breakdown

2 Blockchain Developers 50$ per hour -160 hours (each) * 2 = 16,000 USD

1 UI/UX Developer 40$ per hour 50 hours = 2000 USD

Quality Assurance Developer 40$ per hour 50 hours = 2000 USD

Total Development Cost 20000 USD

Team (Feasibility)

Project Website <https://web.facebook.com/fiveloavestwofish777/>

DImitri Fernando <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrifernando777/?originalSubdomain=lk>

Active member of Catalyst Community - Community Advisor in Fund 6 and 7, Veteran Community Advisor in Fund 7, VCA in Flash Assessment in Fund 7, Cardano4Climate, Cardano Creatives, Founder of South Asian Town Hall, Active in Eastern Town Hall, Pacific Town Hall, European Town hall, Catalyst Swarm, Gimbalabs Playground

Serial Entrepreneur, INFJ, Marketer by profession, Creative by passion, Strategist, Writer, Poet, Storyteller Has background in multiple sectors and has run several companies with groundbreaking technologies in Sri Lanka. Having his first job as a department store Santa at age 12, he learnt how bringing joy to kids and the less fortunate would bring unspeakable joy to life. He worked at Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation on various radio channels under the English Service, and learnt the art of communication, presentation, audio and radio production, and program compilation. Working often in highly tense security situations due to the ever present threat of terror attack on the SLBC by the LTTE he learnt to be cool under immense pressure and not let any crisis affect him. He is a Chartered Management Accountant, and Chartered Marketer. He has also completed MBTI and FIRO-B certifications and is currently becoming an ICF accredited Coach and DISC certified trainer and consultant. He has experience in multiple sectors, including Business Development on a national scale for global brands. He has been involved in social service projects for 35 years. He has been distributing food to the hungry several times a week since July 2018. Even during lockdown he was able to get a special pass as he was engaging in essential food distribution services.

Ryan Vukich Tech Lead

Uditha Bandara <https://www.linkedin.com/in/udithabandara/>

Uditha Bandara (MVP) is an expert in specializes in Microsoft , AI and Blockchain Technologies . He is an author in AI technologies, an international speaker and the founder/CEO of Blue Chip Asia and South East Asia`s First XNA/DirectX MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

Rishantha Welikadage <https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/daforce>

RIshantha has been involved in multiple business sectors including State Government in Minnesota USA as a Hardware Technician and Entrepreneur. He has also worked in software development in the logistics industry. Being involved from the inception of a freight logistics company he grew it from 2 employees to over 30 and developed a proprietary system which was better than ready built systems available for a UK logistics and courier company.

He has obtained his MBA in Business Management from Australia and has also been involved in many Social Service organizations such as the Lions Club as well as food distribution on his own.

Chamarie Ranasinghe <https://web.facebook.com/designerchamari>

Chamari Ranasinghe has been involved in multiple entrepreneurial businesses for the last 25 years. She is highly experienced in managing complex projects and has a skill of connecting with all strata of society and can motivate any group of people. She has a down to earth quality about her that serves her well in her social service work which also brings her closer to her passion of helping people. She is also a qualified Ayurvedic Physician.

D M Saman Chandana <https://web.facebook.com/saman.c.dissanayake>

Saman has been working in the areas of technical maintenance and management for over 20 years. His skill sets bring needed planning and operations management to the entire operations of food pickup and distribution. His involvement with various low income and marginalized communities around Colombo help him regularly bring food and other needed resources to these underserved communities

This project needs two Blockchain developers, UI/UX developer, and a Quality assurance Engineer to complete this project, and there is no need to take external developers. We have this team in house.

The type and number of team members required to implement the proposal

Four people to handle Food pickup and Delivery

One Marketing person to onboard new Restaurants and identify Beneficiary locations

One Admin and Accounts Person

One Social Media and Content Creation person

One person to manage Client servicing. This will grow as number of clients grows

Number of restaurants onboarded. Can be tracked by the NFT having a unique identifier for the restaurant

Number of food packs collected per restaurant per day . Can be tracked by NFTs generated from that unique ID of the restaurant per specific day.

Number of food packs distributed per day - Total number of NFTs distributed

Number of private , household, corporate donors per month - Can be tracked by NFTs and by the App

Number of NFTs generated upon pickup - Tracked via App

Number of NFTs generated on sale - Tracked via app

Number of NFTs sold on the CNFT marketplace - Obtained from stats on the marketplaceNumber of Volunteers working - Can be tracked from the system

Number of shift swaps - Can be tracked from the system

Visual Real time auditability for anyone who comes here.

Whether it's me, or a number of people working for me, we will ensure we deliver your excess food without fail to our beneficiary locations. The Restaurateur, Community Member coming here on holiday, stake pool operator or delegator coming here on holiday are welcome to join in at any time with us, to do food runs, to see where we go, how we deliver and possibly the gratitude on people's faces when they receive this food. I am sure you have seen this in the media perhaps but now you have the opportunity to see it happening every day, with food that otherwise you would have to discard. I am sure this is something you would welcome and cherish.

With additional funding we can even livestream the food distribution using head mounted GoPro or other methods such as Mobile phone Live Streaming to Youtube or Facebook

What does success for this project look like?

Getting our operational funding requirements met and ability to extend from one night a week to 7 nights per week.

Ability to increase our beneficiary locations

Ability to increase our donor base of individuals and corporates who turn to us to donate their excess food from parties and functions.

Ability to effectively manage our team of volunteers or freelancers

Ability to minimize time spent on the roads where food is in transit

Greater awareness among the public of the work being done and a month on month increase of donors both individual, household and corporate

Becoming a desired place to work for freelancers as well as overseas volunteers who would pay us for the opportunity to stay with us and work with us.

Ability to offer this tool as a Software as a Service to other NGOs, Volunteer driven organizations, Charities and businesses who want to use the freelancer model such as the abovementioned media outlets etc

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is a new project. It is linked to another project in Fund 8 which is the NFT marketplace as the functionality of NFT tracking can also be used there. <https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/397281>