The problem Break The Silence solves

Abuse has no limits. Its victims face a lot of barriers just to speak up, including the hesitation to physically file a complaint, fear and even lack of accessibility due to various reasons. What if the abuser was a person with authority? What if that person was the sole income of the family? What if reporting the person means jeopardizing your own life? What if the victim is afraid or just plainly embarrassed to physically go to the police station and file a report, which he/she already knows is going to be public knowledge even before any action is taken about it. The truth is, there are so many ‘what ifs’ which has not been addressed yet. And even if I never understand what it is to actually be that person, I deeply, from my heart, empathize with the victims. I’m unable to just ignore all this and move on with my life. This has to change. Every single ‘what if?’ has to be brought to light. Our motive is to make this process so simple that every abuser would be scared out their wits to even try victimizing someone.

Challenges we ran into

The making of this project has threw us an interesting track of challenges which made ‘thinking out of the box’ a mandatory thing. The lack of proper tutorials and understandable documentations for learning Base was a major issue to start with. For a while, we didn’t know what we were doing and learnt a lot of things through just trial and error. We also spent a lot of time and faced a lot of problems in Rainbowkit Integration. Network configuration was another milestone we had to cross. It required our collective effort as a team and taught us teamwork. Finding solutions to each of the problems that kept arriving like a never-ending tide, gave us a great experience in how to face obstacles in any phase of life. It taught us that, if you sit in a problem long enough, the solution will find you. Atleast in coding language. It’s because there were instances where we just stumbled across the solution just a moment before giving up. Moreover, our college exams are going on and we need to prepare for it parallelly. The juggle was exhausting but it taught us to keep up our energy in times of need. Overall, this hackathon has been a good learning experience, as well as a great opportunity to showcase our skills!