Students of IUT have developed a platform to those who need a help

4th year students of the “SOCIE” faculty: Bekhzodkhon Makhkamov, Azizbek Kobilov, Feruza Latipova, Shokhsanam Shirinkulova, Dilorom Alieva, BokhodirUrinbaev, Muzaffar Choriev, Oybek Amonov and Sardor Allaberganov-developed a platform for connecting volunteers with people in need of help. The project join with a website birdamlik.uz and Telegram bot //t.me/birdamlikuz_bot.

“When our country was faced with an epidemic, our team wanted to help in some way, to do something useful for people. In one of the volunteer groups, we met Nigora Isamiddinova, who, in Tunisia right now, helped to organize the work of volunteers in Tashkent. She suggested developing a platform to connect those in need and those who want to help. So the idea of creating a website was born Birdamlik.uz”, – said one of the developers Feruza Latipova.

“Birdamlik” is a platform through which those who need help and those who can provide this help can find each other.The project works in a simple: the user signs to the site or Telegram bot and fills in the form as a person in need of help, or as a volunteer.In the form, you must fill your full name, contact phone number, and residential address.To make a easy for volunteers, a person who needs help can choose one of the social groups to which it belongs: «Single pensioners”», “People with disabilities», “Single mothers” and others.Also you can select the type of the questionnaire: “Food”, “Medicine”, or “delivery” of something from point A to point B.Then the application is passed to the volunteer and the necessary items are delivered. It is important that the questionnaire is simplified as much as possible and can be filled in by the person who needs help, or neighbor, friend, relative can help if you don’t have a phone or internet.

“Our team created this project in a week. All work was done from distance. I was in Tashkent, Aziz worked from Andijan, Feruza – from Navoi, Shokhsanam-from Jizzakh. Rest of the team members were also in different parts of Uzbekistan. Nigora Isomiddinova advised us from Tunisia. Distance did not prevent us from making our project, which we finally decided to submit to the COVID-19 Challenge competition,”- said a student of IUT, Bekhzodkhon Makhkamov.

The project “Birdamlik “won the anti-crisis competition in the category “Help to Vulnerable Layer of Population”, and received funding for development. According to the developers, the pandemic has become a kind of impulse to create something that has long been missing.