covidaid

get services near you using our app during this Quarantine time

Inspiration

The Government of Kenya issued a curfew notice starting from Friday the 27th March 2020 in a bid to contain the Coronavirus Pandemic. In addition, the directive to stay at home has changed the business ecosystem and the client life in the following ways:

Businesses have lost their normal supply of walk-in customers.
Clients are also in need of information about businesses and services close to them
Limited vehicles for transport as public service vehicles have to carry fewer people to keep the 1-meter rule. are constrained to get have been affected since they open and close within the curfew hours.as well as the people.

What it does

This is a platform that: Provides a repository of all nearby services through an application called haraka haraka. Service providers upload their businesses while users view and search by location.

How we built it

The team has members of different expertise. One focused on the android app, three on the backend and three on the frontend.

Challenges we ran into

Figuring out what exactly to leave out of the solution

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have the haraka haraka app already up being used by about 1500 users and more than 200 businesses

What we learned

We are still making progress in this line

What's next for covidaid

Add functionality to carpool, and help supply the need for vehicles.
Provide a way to donate to street families. This shall be in partnership with a charity organization.
we would like to get funded to scale the solution to more platform and also include more features