Once every year, the non-profit organization Blockchain For Humanity celebrates the best and most promising projects that use distributed ledgers to benefit humanity. We sent our application to them at the 11th hour, and Casper was later interviewed by them in a screening process where they learned about the PolloPollo project in greater detail..

This year the winners will be announced at the Latin American Bitcoin & Blockchain Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay December 12–13.

As you might already know, we have two volunteers based in Venezuela that are actively working on the PolloPollo project, whilst raising awareness of the platform among fellow Venezuleans.

Santiago Law will represent PolloPollo at the conference. Due to the political situation in Venezuela, travelling is far from easy and regular ways of travel are not possible. Santiago will therefore have to go on an extensive road trip from Venezuela to Brazil by bus, and from Brazil to Uruguay by plane. The round trip will take 2½ weeks in total.

In cooperation with Blockchain For Humanity, an opportunity to have Santiago on one or more of the panel discussions has arisen, and we believe that the Obyte features making the PolloPollo platform so unique will potentially be relevant to other charitable organizations that will be present at the event. We are actively working with Blockchain For Humanity to establish connections ahead of the conference to maximize the potential of our participation.

Funding for the travel

As PolloPollo is 100% non-profit relying on volunteers and largely the support from the Obyte community, we set up a fully transparent and publicly visible budget of every cost we need to cover. Being the founder and having a personal interest in further increasing awareness of the platform, I donated $600 along with $300 from fellow Obyte team member Paul Murray. We also just received confirmation from the Obyte Foundation that they will support the trip if we manage to also raise funds from the wider community.

Our goal is to raise $250 from the community.

I reached out to conference organizers to apply for a free ticket to the event, which would further reduce our need by $185.

PolloPollo received a large donation from the winner of the last round of the Autonomous Agent Developer Contest, but a promise was made that they were only to be used for donations. Only as a last resort, will we ask the community for their view on donating up to a maximum of 15 Gbytes out of the 140 Gbytes to help our project.

I therefore call upon all Obbies to step up and help us realize this opportunity! It will further raise awareness of the PolloPollo platform along with the Obyte features without which PolloPollo wouldn’t exist today.

If we succeed, Santiago will represent us at the conference, and hopefully be on one of the panel discussions to receive an award, should we be so lucky to win. It could be huge to receive recognition as the most promising distributed ledger-based charity project with potential global impact.

Santiago will provide pictures and written updates. We are also actively reaching out to journalists and other participants of the conference to arrange for interviews with Santiago during his time there.

Travel budget (will be updated regularly)

Wallet for donations in Bytes:

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Any amount will be greatly appreciated and donors wishing to have their name appear on the budget, can get in touch with Casper (Punqtured) either on Discord or Telegram.