--Inspiration
During the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa, gender-based violence has increased significantly.
One observation regarding abusers, is that they are very suspicious of anything the victim might do on their phone. Therefore it is important to be as discreet as possible when trying to solve this problem.
We wanted a solution for these victims to get the necessary help.
--What it does
Daisy is the website we have created to help assist gender-based violence victims. Daisy uses a façade.
We use a period tracker as our façade. Most men stay as far away as possible from any topic period related and thus, we chose this.
On first look the website is a basic period tracker with information regarding menstrual cycles and whether yours are healthy. But we have a button on our page that will take you to a whole new level of the website - our help site.
At the help site, you can choose to press an SOS button in case you need police intervention immediately. There is also a chat channel, if you just need to talk to someone or have questions regarding abuse.
The biggest reason why our solution is unique from other solutions, is because we use the façade. And especially the kind of façade that most abusers wouldn’t think much of even if they were to catch the victim using our site.
The way in which we respond to SOS signals is not in a usual manner. We do this silently and without attracting any attention to the victim. We do not call, SMS or make noise, because we don’t want the abuser to get suspicious and possibly harm the victim even more before help arrives.
In practice all the messages and SOS signals will go to an organization that has a 24-hour hotline. The organization will be responsible to contact the correct authorities and in the case of the chat button, communicate with the victim. However for the purposes of this hackathon, all the messages and SOS signals will be sent to us.
Lastly our name and theme are unique. Our theme is chamomile – a beautiful, delicate flower that helps reduce stress and anxiety just like our website, but our name is Daisy. This is a metaphor for the app looking like one thing but being something completely different.
-- How we built it Technologies used FRONT-END Angular 9 Angular Material and Angular Flex Bootstrap Photoshop BACK-END Node.js Express DATABASE PostgreSQL Sequelize Heroku server BROWSER SUPPORT Brave Chrome Safari
-- Challenges we ran into We didn't particularly ran into challenges we couldn't solve. But it was very challenging to create this whole working website in just a weekend.
-- Accomplishments that I'm proud of We finished our project and we think it looks really nice. The main functionality works perfect.
-- What I learned It was nice to work with a girls only group. We worked very well together and we definitely built on our skills.
-- What's next for Daisy We would like to refine the website, especially the period tracker part and hopefully provide this website as a real life solution for women in need.
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