Zariyaindia

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Zariyaindia is a Tech nonprofit that helps women in India who face domestic violence. We connect women with legal and counseling help near them based on their needs and zipcode. The fundamental problem at hand is the large gap between women who need help and the organizations that provide help. We are bridging this gap by infusing this ecosystem with much-needed technology. We are designing the end-to-end journey to recovery that a woman goes through via two products: A marketing website where women can learn more about us and use our chatbot to reach out for help. The goal of this website to make women feel safe to reach out to us and know that there is confidential help available for free. A case management system (also a website) that is used by the Zariya team and the NGOs we partner with. This is where cases are managed by our counselor partners by adding notes, assigning cases, updating statuses, etc. By making help free and easily accessible, we want to encourage more women to speak up and get the help they need. We are a small team of volunteers who work remotely. So far we have received over 500 cases from major cities in India like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi. We have received a small grant from the Stanford Haas Center as well as prize money from the 3M CII Innovator’s challenge in India.

Core Challenge

The case management system (CMS) we have built so far is simple. We haven’t closed the loop on feedback from both survivors and counselors to understand how we can make the experience better for survivors. There are also a lot of useful features we’d like to add that not only make the experience better for counselors using the CMS but also help us measure the quality of our impact.

Projects

• Survivor Feedback: Implement an automated system of collecting feedback from survivors who have been connected with counselors. This could be via email or SMS (using Twilio). We’re looking to understand if a survivor is satisfied with the help she is receiving and other more granular feedback.
• Fields: Implement a generalized architecture for adding fields to each case with possible options for each field. For example, one field that is a must is the Status of the case. This will help us iterate faster and easily customize our CMS to accept new information from counselors.
• Follow: Implement the ability to subscribe to cases so as to receive future updates to that case via notifications. This includes new notes that might be added to a case or if its status changes.

Core Skills Needed

Full-stack engineers with a product-driven mindset. Preferably familiar with Ruby on Rails, React, and Redux.

Current Tech Stack

• React + Redux front end,
• Ruby on Rails backend
• Postgres DB on AWS ElasticBeanstalk

What to expect?

You will be the second engineer on the team besides one of the co-founders. You will build the projects above end-to-end taking full ownership and autonomy. You will be able to see your work in the hands of users and understand the difference it makes to women facing domestic violence and to the women who are helping them.

Project contact Arzav Jain, Co-Founder