Burger Buddy

We had an amazing opportunity to work with the organization called "Solar Buddy" in Impact Lab:2- one of units provided by QUT for considering problems around people. While working on it, we were offered a brief - "How might we tackle issues of energy poverty for youth in disadvantaged Australian communities so that they could have safe and positive things to do in the evening?"

Burger Buddy is a project that we proposed to help increase awareness and raise funds, creating an empathetic understanding of what it is like to live in the environment experiencing energy poverty.

The points we thought that Solar Buddy can improve was:

- Lack of positive engagement with donors

- Inability for people living in first world conditions to understand what it is like to live in energy poverty

- A gap in empathetic understanding of what it is like to live in energy poverty. -

HOW IT WORKS?

The solution we came up with was a fundraising campaign that reaches out to schools and collaborates with teaching teams to help educate young Australians about energy poverty as they have the biggest reach, telling friends, family friends, family members at the dining table.

The project would work by generating posters, emails, newsletters. Then, an entry fee of $10 will take place. From that money, $3.00 will go straight back to school for covering the cost of the burger’s ingredient. This will leave $7 from each child’s entrance, which means Solar Buddy will be able to raise $2450 per a school.

The ingredients for burgers will be prepared in bowls on a table and students will be asked to put on their blindfolds. Students will assemble their burgers blindfolded and they will find a mess on their plate after removing their blindfolds. This will be a great opportunity to reflect and understand what life is like in energy poor communities.