EmpowHER

An app to empower women with right guidance, opportunities, mentorship and give them a voice.

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Inspiration

  • In today's day and time, there are a lot emerging opportunities for women. But they are not well curated and the deadlines are often missed by most people.
  • It has also been found out through surveys that in the cases of sexual harassment at workplace or organization, nearly 3 in 4 claims of harassment go unreported
  • More than 38% of women have experienced sexual harassment at work. Its as though, women have learnt to suffer silently as they fear retaliation or worse- not believing in their claims. All they need is a platform to give them VOICE All these problems led us to think of creating our App- EmpowHER.

What it does

It has the following features:

Opportunities and Resources :

  • User can get all the information about upcoming opportunities and recommended resources along the links to their website to get more info, deadlines to apply and description
  • User can also upload details about new opportunities or resources and earn points.

Find a mentor:

  • Users can view different mentors(from a variety of organizations) and book an appointment with them for a minimal charge.

A Safe Space :

  • Users will a get a platform to write(Either anonymously/not) about any kind of gender inequality or sexist experience they faced in their respective organization.
  • This way they can make their story reach out to a large number of people and get their support.
  • Users can read other’s story and can Upvote it.

Redeem Points:

  • Users will be able to earn points by uploading new valid resources and opportunities on the app.
  • They can redeem these points to buy things from the in-app store.
  • The store include gifts like books by powerful women, empowerment stickers, t-shirts etc.

How we built it

  • We built our app using Flutter, Firebase, Visual Studio Code, Android Studio.
  • We collaborated using Git on GitHub.

Challenges we ran into

  • Since all of us are working online and are not at the same place, collaborating virtually was a tough task.
  • The designing of our app is a little unconventional for default flutter widgets like listTile, so tweaking it took us some time.
  • Making the UX really user friendly was a time consuming process and took a lot of brainstorming.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Overcoming all the challenges mentioned above, we were able to complete a working flutter App with a user friendly interface in the given limited amount of time.

What we learned

  • Teamwork
  • Time management

What's next for EmpowHER

Future Scope:

  • Implement an ml model which will suggest current opportunities available based on previous registrations made by the user.
  • Collaborate with Women Empowering Organizations and conduct various events for women in tech.
  • User can fill a form to be a mentor and we will verify it in backend.
  • In future we plan to start our own Scholarship to support women.

Future Monetization Plan:

  • We intended to generate revenue through the app by charging some amount of money for the mentor session from the users.
  • We can also generate revenue by putting in advertisements (of sanitary pads, women healthcare products etc.)
  • A part of the revenue will be used to buy the gifts in the redeem store to keep our idea running
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