iHELPu: mobile application development to locate the poors

Poverty usually occurs around a part of society, where they did not have the luxury and privilege of wealth because of problems or issues that have happened in the past. Most poor peoples lived in remote and rural areas which is the places has lack of facilities such as transportation, hospitality, communication and education. Furthermore, remote areas is an area that have modern facilities but it takes miles to access it. The problem that lead to this project is people hard to locate the poors due to lack of technologies in certain area. Most of poor peoples have no mobile phones to communicate. Therefore, this project is proposing a mobile application that can locate and help these poor peoples. The objectives of this project are to identify the requirements of iHELPu mobile application, to design and to develop iHELPu mobile application. The scope of this project is for general public user covered only Shah Alam area and available for Android users only. The features of this iHELPu mobile application are detect user current location, navigation and direction to location of poor people, save location and view information of the poor people. This project is using MADLC as the methodology approach to the development of iHELPu mobile application. MADLC is divided into seven phases which are identification, design, development, prototyping, testing, deployment and maintenance but this project only covered five phases from identification until testing. Based on the result from user testing, it shows a positive response from the testers. As a conclusion, iHELPu mobile application may help users to find poor people and help them. It also can be used for NGO to conduct charity activities by locating the poors that need their help. The limitation and suggestion for future enhancement for this project had been identified based on the analysis of the data collected.