# Travellers’ donate baggage space to charity app wins Sabre’s £10k hackathon

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/07/10/travellers-donate-baggage-space-to-charity-app-wins-sabres-10k-hackathon/
- Published: 2015-07-10T12:07:11+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**An app that lets international travellers donate their spare baggage capacity 
to charities has won the £10,000 prize in Sabre Corporation’s travel hackathon, 
held in London.**

The app, Travita, helps match business travellers that have spare space and weight
in their baggage to small charities who need equipment or items brought out to them
in the travellers’ destination country.

When they log in, travellers can see which items are needed in the country they 
are travelling to. If they choose to take them then can then drop them off at the
airport at a special charity pick-up point.

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Travita’s team was among 150 people from 18 countries who took part in the one-day
hackathon with the aim of creating new digital tools and apps for global travel.

Travita has been created by Sameen Islam, Kristina Semenyuk and Jaykumar Pradeep
Rawal, three 19-year-old students at Queen Mary’s University, London, and 35-year-
old Katie Rushton, who has a background working for start-ups.

Sabre is a technology provider to the travel and tourism industry. Greg Webb, one
of five judges and president at Sabre Travel Network, said:

> “We chose Travita as our overall winner because it displayed the most unique use
> of technology that can provide a new way for frequent travellers to give back 
> to the community. It’s something we’ve never seen before and something we believe
> will go a long way.”

Here is the demo of the app in its current format (no sound):

**Editor’s note:** _the video previously embedded here (https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=RLp7hI46W8k) is no longer available._

_Main image: [Airport departure board](http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-287970653.html)
by Matej Kastelic on Shutterstock.com_

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