found the @_actionhunger (twitter) vending machine for the homeless in nottingham today.

i was really pleased to have found the action hunger machine.

I think it’s the first one in the uk if I’m not mistaken, I’m not sure if that’s a local project or how it came about but I wanted to post about it because I think it’s a bloody genius idea that needs to be in every bus, coach or train station across the land if not the world.

What’s neat about it is that if you are homeless and registered you get a plastic card that you can use I believe three times a day to be able to take things from the machine — while at it we saw gloves in there, food snacks and sanitary towels for women, what a fantastic start to at least giving people who are homeless some semblance of acknowledgement of the human being at that source, street level.

https://www.actionhunger.org is the site to find out more information about this great concept and effort, i hope they find whatever funding they need to make this a reality across the country -- recently launched their first vending machine for the homeless in Nottingham, UK. The purpose is two-fold: to function as a lifeline, but also as a service through which users keep in regular contact with support services like local shelters and outreach centres.

I wanted to stick this out there on the social blockchain because I know that steemit is really heading to the moon in terms of google set and so I know that people searching for this will find this post looking for the machine or at least hearing about it — I’d love to interview the people behind it and maybe just maybe we can use blockchain to take this a step further maybe and use these vending machines to further connect us to the homeless.

My thoughts are maybe with storytelling and curation, gathers, mini powered raspberry pi machines with a battery bank, solar cell or a wireless keyboard, way to take a photo with a cheap camera, setup of social accounts with the logins, steemit accounts already created, delegated steem for taking and supplying things for the vending machines.

!steemitworldmap 52.950325 lat -1.146272 long ACTION HUNGER HOMELESS VENDING MACHINE IS HERE d3scr

p.s -- i'm thinking the Hive account@greenman idea of 'direct to vendor' could work well for 'direct to homeless' to fund getting assets for these machines globally -- https://maxgerber.com/direct-to-vendor is a website that Hive account@maxg made to track donations to the greenman project -- man, this could be awesome -- machines, supplies, blockchain funded, helping the homeless become storytellers, street level reporting. .. the scope here is massive.