Shelter
The project is a mobile and web based app intended for homeless people to use in Minneapolis as a resource and intended to help streamline the process of checking into a shelter.
Project Details
Technologies Used
React, Material UI, Google Maps, Twilio API, Express, Firebase
Project Features
- Sign up/login using email/password or Google
- The My profile page is a basic profile page for you that includes your name and photo for identification purposes. This page helps shelters identify you quickly at check in and provides you with another form of identification if you lose or misplace your primary id.
- The app provides a list of shelters that you can use to quickly look up homeless shelters in Minneapolis.
- When you are ready to check into a shelter, you go to the Check in page.
Project Overview
This project hopes to solve and slow down the rapidly growing homeless crisis in Minneapolis. The project is a mobile and web based app intended for homeless people to use as a resource and intended to help streamline the process of checking into a shelter. The short term goal of this app is to get homeless people into a shelter easily and quickly each night. The long term goal of this app is to provide an opportunity for homeless people to rebuild their lives and get off the streets for good.