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Abstract: An important goal in our world today is to eliminate food waste by reutilizing available food sources within local communities: leftover food items in restaurants, stores and food distribution centers that may be approaching expiration; and any perishable items not used in entirety within their desired period. This is highly significant, particularly during crises such as the COVID- 19 pandemic. This paper focuses on creating an interesting mobile application (app) called Seva that provides a ubiquitous platform wherein users can visualize available food resources in their local area and consequently gain access to food, thereby tackling two major issues, i.e., hunger and food waste. This app is pertinent to the user and fits the general realm of AI for Smart Living in Smart Cities. In addition to entailing IoT (Internet of Things) and ubiquitous computing, this work makes positive impacts on both healthcare and environment by reducing hunger and food waste respectively. We describe our Seva app development using principles from AI, and especially HCI (Human Computer Interaction), along with its evaluation encompassing user surveys. We also list some open issues with the scope for future work. The focus of this project is to reduce the amount of food wasted and being used to the needy people. Therefore, an android-based application is developed by which a person can donate food with their capacity and at the same time the application lets the organization put their request on their requirements. In this project the guest can login & enter their Location, amount of food and type of food available. Then a simple notification is given to the agent. After seeing the notification, the agent among that location can login & can gather the details of the donor. The donor can hold an account in this application & whenever there is food wastage, he can login and enter the details of food and location. The agent can also hold an account and can retrieve the details. After retrieving the details, the agent can collect food from the donor and redistribute it to the orphans or others.