The problem Feel At Home solves

On average, a woman will leave an abusive relationship seven times before she leaves for good, according to The National Domestic Violence Hotline. Our aim is to reduce that number and help these women realize that they are not alone. A plethora of NGOs and helplines exist to help domestic abuse victims but these women are in a vulnerable state of mind and don’t want to seek help or can’t, many of them are confused and scared thinking ‘maybe it really was my fault’.
We don’t want to help domestic abuse victims; we want to enable them to help themselves. This can only be achieved by a gradual change of mind set which survivors and volunteers will bring. On this platform like-minded individuals will share their burden and truly empathise with their situation.
The impact this will create will be two-fold:
Firstly, these women will have an emotional support system during their darkest nights. This will reduce suicidal thoughts they may be having and will no longer feel like they are alone in their battle. They will have a family to shoulder to cry out in bad days and celebrate every victory with them.
Secondly, they will be encouraged to help others, just like they were when they first came. This will give them a sense of purpose and increase their self-worth. It has been scientifically proven that helping others releases more dopamine
than receiving it. The sense of accomplishment and pride that they will experience when someone else escapes will be second to none.

Challenges we ran into

Creating location based groups for users was more complex than we had imagined. Limiting no of users in one room and matching rooms between users created problems. We had to invert the room string on the recieving user's end to get it to work.