Insights of getting into the humanity
By: Hamza Amjad
Tags: Amalkindness, Amal Totkay, Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

Problem Statement:

Poverty may have an impact on making fiscal the economy. Poverty, as a burning issue worldwide, can’t be eliminated but can be reduced despite living in the 21st century. Manifestation of poverty includes hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as well as the lack of participation in decision-making.

Ever wonder what happens if everyone is rich? You find no poor..! But this is not the case basically. But how can we find the actual poor? Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Finding the poor (actual poor) is really a challenging task.

Interview with the affected people:

This is Amir, who belongs to the Northern areas of Pakistan, in the slum areas of Abbottabad, KPK. He hardly earns Rs. 20000/month from a factory he worked at, in this inflation, high-pricing economy, and COVID-19 pandemic. He shared his story that the last 10 days of the month, he barely managed to eat something. Many institutions help him. Sometimes they give and sometimes they may not. “There is no proper procedure,” he added, “to get the donations or findings, etc.”

Another story, while visiting the slum areas of Punjab, I also find out that there are some people who even didn’t get a job. They have nothing that can feed their belly. They cannot find a proper channel to get aid or help from the fundraising organizations. After a backlash, they start doing robbery and other stuff like that. So, here is a story of Ayub, a thief (I don’t personally want to degrade him). He said that we are a citizen of Pakistani and we even could not get the basic right to live in, job, health. “Day by day, we are” he added, “getting on the verge of devastation.” “And no government officials can help you out?” “MNAs come here just for votes, having no option to have a good life, we sold our self-esteem to lead a respectable life.”

Chidren from slum areas

Problem Pitch:

So, basically many people cannot get proper help through proper channel or they get less help due to corruption in distributing the funds. People cannot find a way to clearly help the poor. Non-profit organization help the community but in a smaller scale. Often, they face some issues in verifying the other person whether he is actually a needy person or not.

So, I propose a solution of creating an application where a user from Pakistani can register either as needy person or as a donor. Needy person can put the relevant documents for what they need for. His request for donation will approve after cross verifying by the staff. Donor can see the documents and donate him depending upon his expenditure. So, this application is basically a bridge that can make a relationship between poor with rich and try to finish poverty in Pakistan. This may only eliminate the poverty but also eradicate a lot of issues for Pakistan economy.

For this thing, I have met a lot of industrial experts that accepts this solution as it can overcome the gap between rich and poor. Here is the picture of my meetup with others.

Steps taken to identifying problem:

We see a lot of people who cannot even afford to live. There are many people like that. So, it is the love for humanity that can make me to think about humanity Then, there is a gap between the channel of donation that many people can’t get the donations just because of some corruption or some other legalities. Being a student of software engineering, I think of plan to create an application that can provide a platform to poor as they get help after cross-verification from the person who really can afford the things. Moreover, it is the sense of patriotism that always awaken us to serve the people of Pakistan.

Insights that benefit me: