EcoPickApp is a free mobile application now available in the App Store, was designed with you at the forefront. You as a business owner, you as an individual, you as a volunteer and your community as a whole can benefit from EcoPickApp. This mobile application was developed out of a need its founder Dr. Hadi Rebbaa has personally witnessed many times in his life and his career. As a Cancer Scienti
st, he has seen several occasions where patients were homebound and could not get out to shop in a store for nourishment and other necessities. He has also experienced first-hand the challenging effects of living in a Food Desert area. EcoPickApp is a global app that can make a difference in in the life of someone who cannot get to the store easily, or not at all. While the app was developed with those in need as the primary users, it is also way for friends, family and neighbors to more easily help each other out, combining errands and saving each other time and the cost of fuel. This is social networking with value and purpose. In addition to helping others and conserving time and energy, EcoPickApp solves another problem that plagues many areas today, and that is volunteering. In many cases, the search for volunteering opportunities to meet this need has proven to be very difficult. That's because most, if not all volunteering organizations would not hire a "stranger" unless he/she goes through all the criminal checks and gather all references for evaluation, not to mention an organization must have someone dedicated to managing the scheduling of volunteers. This process is cumbersome, expensive and takes time and valuable resources for the organization to carryout. For individuals interested in helping these organizations with food delivery to seniors and the disabled, the matching depends on which volunteer is available and when. He/she is then assigned a certain number of households to deliver to. The problem is that very often the volunteer is a "stranger" to the helped person. In Dr. Rebbaa's own experience, there have been many times when he has knocked on the door and no one answers. It is not because no one is home, but rather it is that the person is afraid to open the door to a stranger. If he had been a neighbor using EcoPickApp, that person may not have been afraid. EcoPickApp welcomes you to real-time errand volunteering, where a homebound user can now be matched with more than one volunteer simultaneously. Volunteering opportunities can be identified in real-time by both the helper and helped individuals. The need to wait for next volunteer visit is over. EcoPickApp makes it a breeze to manage posted requests and arrange for delivery of needed goods. This is a simple, convenient way for students to more easily volunteer and earn a Care Score that can be used on job and college applications to demonstrate their service to the community. EcoPickApp's mission is to connect as many individuals and businesses around the world for the purpose of helping those in need, conserving energy resources and promoting the simplest form of volunteering. This new twist in social networking allows friends and neighbors to connect and interact with purpose. Participating businesses benefit by increasing customer loyalty and sales. Volunteer organizations serving those in the community who are homebound will benefit by having a simple resource that is appealing to individuals wanting to volunteer, but who may not have a lot of extra time to commit. EcoPickApp allows these organizations to connect citizens in need with their neighbors who are already in stores, or out running errands to pick up needed items. There's no complicated scheduling, or intense paperwork and lengthy waiting periods for participants to endure. Students needing to complete service hours in volunteering can easily fit this into their schedule while building competitive volunteering credits for their college applications and job search. There are no quotas to meet, or commitments to rigid hours that could conflict with school activities and responsibilities. EcoPickApp is practical for everyone! The matching through EcoPickApp is simple: homebound individuals or a representative of their organizations are encouraged to provide contact telephone numbers and names of individuals interested in using the service to school volunteering /Community services, who will then communicate the information to students. Requests for pickup are ordered and paid for, then posted in stores near the locations where the volunteer student normally hangs out. Any volunteer who is near a business where the request for pickup is posted will receive a notification. They can simply stop in and pick up items while they are in the vicinity. By using EcoPickApp, neighbors will be able to offer assistance to each other by forming a community within the app that provides an avenue where participants can save each other from a trip to the store. This app is especially valuable to senior and disabled citizens who may be waiting on assistance from a non-profit organization. With the EcoPickApp, there is no application process, or waiting periods to receive the much needed assistance. Through this app, churches and schools can actively participate as well by identifying volunteers in real-time to help their community members with daily errands. EcoPickApp helps save time, money, gas and the environment while promoting a more close knit community.
