Yana.help provides a safe space to access canton-specific emergency contact information and support to help victims. Additionally, our participative web platform yana.help aims to connect domestic abuse victims, witnesses and professionals through discussion forums.
WINNERS OF TWO HACKATHONS
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Users can create an account to participate in discussions: this can be done with an alias for victims/other users, while experts can register with an accredited account. Altogether, yana.help will provide information, support and advice to anyone who needs it.
Who we are
A team of 12 passionate people from various fields who came together during the
Versus Virus Switzerland hackathon with the aim of domestic violence prevention. Over 48 hours, we created a prototype of our novel solution: yana.help (you are not alone), and were selected as one of the highlights of the event. From this, we secured a preliminary grant of 1000CHF with the possibility of further funding. As we are addressing this urgent topic, we have been interviewed by CNN Money Switzerland and Migros magazine.
I helped with the brainstorming and the design of the platform, as did the whole team. Then I focused more on the technical aspect when building the website, especially the blogging section. It was my first project with Angular and web tools in general, but I learned a lot during those two days.
I contributed to the structuring of the team work, the brainstorming of ideas, content research and the presentation creation.
In the future, I would like to develop further the “physical” help network around the platform and the business model of yana.help.
During this amazing hackathon, I had the distinct pleasure of working with wonderful people.
More specifically, I worked on : Team Communications, Research, Prototyping, Development, Debugging, Internationalization of the application (rendering content in all 4 federal languages), and Co-Implementing the mapping of safe spaces.
I was involved in a lot of tasks mostly leading the technical effort. This was a first for me and a role I didn’t expect to have to fill but it was really a pleasure working with amazing talents to bring this project from idea to realization in the form of a prototype. I also managed to implement a little bit of functionality and pitch the idea on our presentation. All in all most of what I did can be summarized in one word “learning”.