The model introduces what I describe as instant tokenization of physical products, allowing people in need with no IT skills, no IT device of their own and in areas with no or poor internet-connectivity to benefit from the major advances being made in distributed ledger technology.

"Currently, as the project is still in an early stage, roughly 150 donations have been carried out. By allowing recipients to reach out to shops/merchants that has products they need, the platform has a huge potential to grow organically without particular need for an onboarding process of new participants. While the project is primarily focusing on Venezuela right now due to the cooperation with 2 students from the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela, the platform is open and transparent and allows it to be used as a medium of charitable donation throughout the world. The technology applied also holds a vast potential for regular established charitable organizations looking for ways to counter fraud, administrative costs and embezzlement from potentially corrupt local NGOs."

"Charitable donations have been found to be extremely inefficient, prone to fraud, embezzlement and political influence. Based on tax filings, it has been proven that as little as 70% of donated funds are spent helping those in need. Costs for administration, logistics, control and shady activities such as government bribes, all take a huge cut in the donated funds. The PolloPollo project provides a disruptive new economic model that eliminates all of those problems. Donated funds goes directly from the donor to the shop/merchant/producer providing a physical product that an applicant applied for. There are no large quantities of goods being hauled by trucks, potentially stopped at borders or being stored in large quantities at warehouses thereby tempting local gangs or corrupt guards to take advantage of the situation. Donated funds are injected straight into a local community thereby resulting in increased revenue for small shops and merchants or even private producers. Donated funds aids the local community in general as increased wealth will circulate within that community, hopefully causing the seed for prosperity that a poor area so desperately need. So apart from the lifesaving direct impact of helping e.g. a mother afford infant formula for her child because she isn't able to produce breast milk due to her own starvation or malnutrition, the PolloPollo project has a far greater indirect potential of genuinely disrupting any existing economic models where revenue of humanitarian aid ends up with large corporations providing the aid, to instead let funds improve the quality of entire communities."

The entire project is built upon distributed ledger technology. Donations are locked on smart contracts and conditioned by data-feeds provided by the actual users of the platform. The ability for a donor to see past transactions also provides full transparency into all donations carried out on the platform.