The problem FRIEND-IN-NEED: FIN solves

The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on people all around the globe. People have been confined to this new, restricted way of life for more than a year now. Quarantining alone has always been frustrating and has adversely affected the mental health of people. The second wave of Covid-19 has brought with it an increased death rate, where many people are losing their loved ones. In such adverse scenarios, a person’s mental health is in a very risky position. Therefore, in order to safeguard people from degrading mental health and its consequences, we have come up with the idea of creating a COVID SUPPORT website or mobile application called “FIN: FRIEND-IN-NEED”. We aim to provide a mixture of professional help, fun activities, and interaction opportunities with other people, which will keep our users engaged and help relieve their stress and anxiety.

Challenges we ran into

1. We had to talk to many COVID-positive patients to know their mental state so that we could understand what they were going through and how they could be helped.

2. We read different articles and interviews of people who had gone and recovered through this phase of mental health problems before the pandemic to compare the differences.

3. During this pandemic, the level of anxiety, depression, and mental trauma has seen touching its peak, so it was difficult for us to come up with unique ideas that could actually help them in any way.

4. Though we had our basic structure but to implement it with added fillers was a tough job for us in this short span of time.