Perhaps you can transform major challenges into blessings if your name is Blessing!
That was exactly what Blessing, one of our participants in our last concluded coding boot camp did; his desire to solve the waste management challenge with his recently acquired software development skills led him to develop a web application he called Eco Earn
According to the Environmental Performance Index of 2024, Nigeria was ranked 105th out of 180 countries with a score of 27 out of 100, indicating Nigeria still generates massive amounts of solid waste, with poor collection and management posing immense threats to human and environmental health.
If Eco-Earn is adopted, it will help in the collection and recovery of energy and materials from waste. In turn, it becomes a money-spinner for everyday people; according to the Managing Director of Pioneer Waste Master Limited, about $250 billion is yet to be tapped in Nigeria’s waste management sector.
Eco Earn is an application that incentivizes the general public to separate and gather their waste in order to be collected by waste agents known as collectors at a price set by the admin of the application. The collectors will in turn sell to the recycling company at a profit margin.
The application has an admin end where most activities are managed and reports are generated:
Blessing developed this application from the technologies learned at Moat Academy Coding Bootcamp using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and Javascript/JQuery for the frontend along with PHP OOP for the backend.
Blessing is now with one of the commercial banks, whose process is to first incubate their new hires before full integration into their development team.
We are happy once again to have stayed true to our commitment to raise remarkable software developers.
