Improving health and increasing wellbeing: reducing food insecurity and waste, with dignity, through a self-reporting app.

什么是Face Donate？Face Donate是一个安全的应用程序，可以将捐款传递给粮食不安全的人，并接收有关捐款使用情况的更新。这为分散式医疗保健和心理健康提供了一个新的平台，通过确保有需要的人能够以信贷的形式获得捐款，他们可以在当地零售商处消费，从而解决粮食不安全问题。Face Donate可以减少粮食不安全和粮食浪费，具有尊严，透明度和包容性。Face Donate使人们能够健康饮食，选择文化上合适的新鲜食物，并在需要支持时向相关组织求助。与哈克尼食品银行（Trussel Trust）合作的Face Donate试点表明，使用Face Donate应用程序后，自我报告的希望、食品安全和心理健康都有所增加。为什么这在今天很重要？目前，政府面临着巨大的压力，需要支持生活成本危机。粮食不安全的人数呈指数级增长，而从环境上讲，粮食浪费是一个燃烧的平台。Face Donate可以提供帮助解决这两个问题的工具。在英国，去年有217万人使用了食品银行，约占人口的3.2%。相比之下，据报告，估计有8.8%的人口生活在粮食不安全的情况下，这表明许多有需要的人不会使用粮食银行。零售商的食物浪费占温室气体排放量的10%。然而有很多人需要这种食物。为什么脸部捐赠是一项好的投资？DEFRA的研究表明，每花费1英镑用于粮食安全，其收益就占14英镑：NISER对Face Donate的研究证实了这一点，证明了“策划的数字现金优先方法”的影响。https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/nudging-towards-healthy-eating? UTM\_content= 207277729&UTM\_medium =social&UTM\_source=linkedin&hss\_channel=lcp-591969 \]

What is Face Donate?Face Donate is a secure app that enables donations to be passed on to people in food insecurity and to receive updates on how the donations were used. This provides a vehicle to for de-centralised healthcare and mental wellbeing by providing a novel platform to tackle food insecurity by ensuring that people in need are able to access donations in the form of credit they can spend at local retailers.How does it work?Face Donate can reduce food insecurity and food waste, with dignity, transparency and inclusion. Face Donate enables to eat healthily, choose culturally appropriate fresh food, and self refer to relevant organisations when in need of support. Face Donate pilots with the Hackney Food Bank (Trussel Trust) demonstrated an increase in self-reported hope, food security and mental wellbeing after using the Face Donate app.Why is this important today?There is currently significant pressure on the government to support with the cost of living crisis. The numbers of people in food insecurity is growing exponentially, and environmentally, food waste is a burning platform. Face Donate can provide the tools to help to solve both of these issues.In the UK, 2.17 million people used a food bank last year, approximately 3.2% of the population. This compares to an estimated 8.8% of the population reported to be living with food insecurity, demonstrating that many people in need will not use food banks. Food wastage from retailers contributes 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet there are many people in need of this food.Why is Face Donate a good investment?Reseach by DEFRA shows that for every £1 spent on food security the benefits account for £14: this is corroborated by NISER research on Face Donate, demonstrating the impact of "curated digital cash-first approach" \[https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/nudging-towards-healthy-eating?utm\_content=207277729&utm\_medium=social&utm\_source=linkedin&hss\_channel=lcp-591969 \]