First results of Kindhack – hackathon organised by Symphony Solutions

First results of Kindhack, IT charity marathon, are launched!

Two days in March Lviv served as a platform for development of socially-useful products in IT sphere.

Kindhack, two-day charity hackathon organised by Symphony Solutions, gathered together software developers, designers and testers from Lviv as well as other cities of Ukraine.

“The main task of all participants was to create a maximally viable version of software and present the results of your work.

Among those invited were various charity and non-profit organizations which outlined modern society needs and brought in ideas for their satisfaction using information technologies.

The organizations invited were the World Wide Fond of Nature (WWF), Wings of Hope, Lviv City Council, Animal Shelter “Myloserdia”.

Afterwards all the prototypes of the software were forwarded to the authors of ideas for their further enhancement for the good of society”

– Lviv City Council press service informed.

According to Hackathon preliminary results, the development of a new website for a public organization “L’arche Kovcheh” (which works with people with special needs) has been completed.

Thanks to a team of 5 volunteer-developers, the organization received an ultra-modern website. To get more information, you may visit their website www.larche-kovcheh.org.ua.

“L’arche Kovcheh” is the first and only L’arche organization in Lviv, Ukraine which became an official member of International L’arche Federation in 2008.

The organization consists of 5 programmes (4 workshops and one Daily programme for severely-disabled people) and a nursing home. It amounts more than 100 members (67 people with special needs, assistants and volunteers).

The aim of the organization is to: give people who are considered to be society outcasts, a chance to belong to community again, cherish the feeling of one’s dignity and value of their lives.

“L’arche Kovcheh” is extremely happy with the result and can proceed with their mission of nurturing the talents of the mentally-handicapped and facilitating the forming of new humane society.

Source: Symphony Solutions