1. Swipe a Smile
For a dollar per swipe, you decide how your donation
is going to change someone’s life.
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2. Swipe a Smile
The idea of this app is to help towns in poverty A dollar doesn’t seem like a big deal, but if you
stricken countries. actually think how many times a day you swipe
your card, it really could make a difference in
With this app, if you choose to use it, you would
people’s lives.
choose a town/village, and every time you swipe
your credit/debit card, a dollar is donated to this Let’s say that a family of four all use the app, and
community. let’s say they all swipe around 10 times a day.
That’s 40 dollars a day times 30 days in a month,
The interesting part about it is that you control
bringing the grand total to approximately 1200
which area of need receives the money, whether it
dollars which goes very far for people who don’t
be food, clothing, shelter, or medicine.
have even the basic essentials that every person
should have.
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3. Our Relationship to the Problem of Poverty
I don’t personally know anyone who is homeless
or starving, nor do most of the people in our
community I assume, so technically I don’t have a
personal relationship to the issue. However,
poverty and everything that comes with it is a
major global issue that can be solved, if not greatly
improved, if everyone literally just put their two
cents in.
Imagine if it was us, or a family member, friend, or
classmate, that was in this situation. Fortunately
for me it is not, but if it were, wouldn’t you want
to help? And if all it takes is a dollar here and
there, then why wouldn’t you do what you could
to help others who are so much less fortunate than
us, only because of where they happen to live?
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4. How it Works
First of all, this would be a free app because why Now I know that 10 dollars doesn’t
would you charge someone who is doing
something to change someone’s life? seem like a lot or enough to
Once you have the app, you need to link your accomplish any of these goals, but
credit/debit card as well as an email address to it if hundreds, thousands, or even
so that it knows when you have swiped and can
send email alerts.
millions of people were all
contributing, it would truly make a
Also, you need to choose where in the world you
would like to contribute to, and then you become difference in the living conditions
their advocate until you decide to stop. of these impoverished
When you do swipe, you can go into the app and communities.
see day to day what your donation amount has
come out to and then manage where the money
goes.
You can choose whether it be put towards food,
clothing, shelter, medicine.
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5. Food Clothing
Screens
Brings you to this menu
Brings you to this menu
Town/Village
Manage Previous
Funds donations
Shelter Medicine
• January 19-$15
Food • January 27-$9
• January 11-$6
Clothing • January 16-$10
• January 1-$12
Shelter • January 9-$7
• Febuary 2-$8
Medicine
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6. Managing Your Donation
So, you’ve been out all day and swiped your
card 9 times.
Now when you login, using your email and
password, you can see the amount of money
that you are dealing with.
Once you know the amount of money you
have to allot, you can put it all towards one
area, such as food, or you can split it up
however you choose.
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7. TOGETHER WE
CAN CHANGE THE
WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYm5LN This app can be found at the app store for any
Tzvg smart phone.
The ultimate goal of this app would be for as many
people as possible to use it to make a difference in
people all over the world’s lives.
This app would be proposed to whoever would
listen because anyone that heard about this would
want to make it a reality, and make poverty a
reality of the past.
This pertains to every country, town, and village in
the world because there is poverty everywhere.
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