WADA - Women Against Domestic Violence

This project helps women deal with domestic abuse providing resources and helping the women identify domestic violence.

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We're addressing:

  • Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
  • Goal 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions for our submission in the category community

Inspiration

We were inspired to make this product from reading stories of women who experienced physical and emotional abuse from their intimate partners. We recognize that domestic violence is an issue that is often not talked about. When we started to brainstorm for this project, one of the first ideas to appear was offering help to women who are abused. We decided to follow this idea because we hope that this project can touch the lives of women who are in need of support.

What it does

Our product provides women who are experiencing domestic violence with the information and the resources to help them better their situation. More specifically, we aid women to analyze their situation, provide them with a network of women who have similar experiences, and give them contact information to helplines and services.

How we built it

We coded a website using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML collaborating over replit. Moreover, we added features such as a quiz that analyzes the severity of a case of domestic violence, as well as stories of former victims.

Challenges we ran into

The making of the code was quite challenging since all the team members are not very proficient in programming. Finding the time to discuss and work on the project at the same time was also quite challenging virtually and required effort from everyone’s part.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud with how the website turned out and really hope that it would benefit women affected. We are proud of the idea and know that if this website was further developed it would help many. We are also proud that we have attended our first hack-a-thon.

What we learned

We learnt a lot about teamwork and taking part in group projects. Time management and organisation skills were also developed as we had to make sure we were able to work on the website at the same time. Furthermore, we were able to further extend our knowledge on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript through the making of this website.

What's next for WADA - Women Against Domestic Violence

We hope to further extend this idea and make it more accessible as an app. This would help a lot of women who are in need of the services we provide on the website and could play a role in the achievement of sustainable development goal number 10 (reduce inequalities) and 16(peace, justice, and strong institutions).

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