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Problem

• It is difficult to locate blood donors with a certain blood types in a designated area.
• There is a huge gap between blood donors to interact between themselves in emergency situation.
• There is less awareness of urgency of blood to people in the country.
• Locating of blood donors and blood seekers is a challenge in the country.

Viable solution

• As a solution to counter these problems, Ug blood donate will be developed. As it is difficult in recruiting and retaining the next generation of blood donors, Ug blood donate is designed in attracting both new and repeat donors. In this case, smartphone application is the most suitable approach to be used as a platform for an emergency blood supply. Ug blood donate is an innovative mobile application that enables the user to find the blood donors with a specific blood type within certain miles of radius. It acts as the intermediate between the Ug blood donate and blood donors. Apart from that, donors can provide details of any blood donation events including location, organizer as well as date and time to notify the public. This can boost the participants in the campaign and increase the awareness of Ugandan citizens towards blood donation. The mobile application provides an interface of interaction for the events creators, donors, seekers and the well wishers too.

Objectives of this project are:

• To develop a mobile application which provides a platform for searching and locating blood donors within a certain mile.
• To develop a mobile application that able to inform people the news of events and campaigns on blood donation around Uganda.
• To develop a mobile application that able to save lives through emergency blood request function. This includes providing a platform for supporting events, blood banks and the emergencies.

These are some of the user interfaces of the application;

Future plans for feature enhancement

Here is the plan for our app in the future.

• When this mobile application getting high demand from the users, author recommends that Ug blood donate to be developed in BlackBerry and iOS application version for future plan. Hopefully, the existing donors will able to update their personal details, make or change appointment, check when they are next due to donate or view their donation history.