By Tina Ball for City of Sanctuary

1. Report on Sheffugees
Hackathon - 8/9 April 16
Tina Ball for City of Sanctuary

2. Work by Sheffield tech community
for refugees and asylum seekers
Tech people from different companies in
Sheffield got together over the weekend with
people from groups working with asylum
seekers and refugees.
It was hosted by Yoomee at Electric Works
Everyone gave their time and skills for free.

3. Two Projects:
1. Wayfinding
An app for asylum seekers and
refugees in Sheffield that helps
you find what you need
Uses streetview, maps, icons, different
languages
2. Asylum Journey
An accessible database that
shows the different services
available at different stages of the
asylum process

4. Why Wayfinding?
An asylum seeker
new to Sheffield can
easily get lost
and…
miss appointments
miss opportunities
lose their way home

5. What we did
Asylum seekers prioritised
the needs
Tech people did lots of
coding and designing. They
started sorting things like
licences and servers
We set up a spreadsheet of
organisations
We got a long way but there
is still more to do
What the app will do
LOCATION - I am here
NEED - I need (money)
WHERE TO GO -
(Post Office)
HOW TO GET THERE -
Directions, Map

6. Wayfinder app - first demo

7. Why the Asylum journey
project?
Services are complex and
confusing.
People working with asylum
seekers need to know what is
available in Sheffield.

8. Asylum seeker journey
To help people working with asylum
seekers and refugees
Shows what services are available
for people at different stages of
the asylum process
Covers housing, health, education,
advice and legal, finance, social
and community, practical resources
The asylum journey
● Shows the different services available for
people at different stages of the asylum
process - from arrival in the city to a positive
decision, or to destitution
● Covers housing, health and social care,
education, finances, advice and legal, social
and community, practical resources
● Flags up issues and problems

9. Asylum seeker journey
To help people working with asylum
seekers and refugees
Shows what services are available
for people at different stages of
the asylum process
Covers housing, health, education,
advice and legal, finance, social
and community, practical resources
At the Hackathon:
● The tech people worked up a first ‘front end’ -
showing what it might be like
● They tried it out with the existing Trello cards
we had worked on
● They worked on a new format to add to the
information, based on the form we designed
● At the moment we are still using the Trello
cards to collect the information - we need to
complete and check these

10. Here’s what it looks like
at the moment:
http://asylumjourney.sheffugees.org/
.

11. What happens next?
The next hack
session will be in
about a month’s
time
We need to get all
the information we
want onto the Trello
cards and into the
spreadsheet
We’re looking for
volunteers to test
the Wayfinding
app and the
Asylum Journey

12. If you can help with these projects, please contact
Tina Ball (for City of Sanctuary)
iamtinab@gmail.com
Do you know about the help
and services available for
refugees in Sheffield?
Do you have experience of
using these services?

13. Thanks to our
friends in the
Sheffield tech
community