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Draft content for the IBM Developer Project page

The content below will be used to populate the page at https://developer.ibm.com/code/open/projects/helpchain/, similar to https://developer.ibm.com/code/open/projects/accessibility-probe-accprobe/ for example.

It borrows heavily from this blog post. The newlines have been removed in the Markdown below: https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/2018/10/17/improving-charitable-giving-with-trust-and-transparency/

Key	Value
Title	Helpchain, your donation with trust and transparency
Short description	Helpchain is an easy-to-use mobile application providing transparency for people all over the world to help the victims of disasters.
Repo link	https://github.com/IBM/Helpchain
Long description	Helpchain is an easy-to-use mobile application providing transparency for people all over the world to help the victims of disasters. Helpchain uses a variety of IBM Cloud services, including IBM Blockchain Platform. The application enables tracking of transactions, fundraising and NGO expenditures audit for all parties involved. The application has 2 feeds: one with real-time disaster alerts, showing the location and number of people that could be affected, and another to track locations that are already receiving donations. Finally, the user can select in the donation field the detail of the disasters and the NGOs involved to make a donation. Once it's placed, the user can track where the donation is being used.
Diagram	TBD
Demo video	https://www.youtube.com/embed/mrtwgLhHknQ
Why should I contribute?	Charitable giving is in a shaky state, a recent survey found. Almost 20 percent of people don’t donate because they lack trust in the institution, and another 5 percent don’t give simply because they aren’t sure how to donate, according to a 2017 study by the Charities Aid Foundation. To address these issues, a team of developers from IBM CIO Brazil – Eduardo Luiz Lopes, Leonardo Gomes Maciel, Leoni Murilo de Lima, Vinicius D. L. Teixeira, and Paulo E. Goncalves Jr. – rallied together to create a blockchain-based solution as part of the 2018 Global Call for Code challenge. “People don’t donate because they don’t trust their money will be used correctly, don’t believe their donation can make a difference or don’t even know how to donate,” Maciel said. “We created the app to solve those three main areas.”
What technology problem will I help solve?	The application has two feeds. One has real-time disaster alerts, showing the location and number of people potentially affected, and the other feed tracks the locations already receiving donations. In the donation field, the user can select the disaster and NGO involved that he or she would like to support. Once the donation is placed, the user can track where and how the money is being used.
How will Helpchain help my community?	“NGOs do an amazing job helping those in need and if we can increase the trust in their work, they can help even more people,” Lopes said.