By Dominick Rodrigues
Mumbai: “sRide,” India’s largest carpooling app, announced the launch of its “sNeighbour” feature for enabling neighbours to seek help and provide support to people in need during covid-19 times..
Lakshna Jha, Co-founder, sRide, said, “In the wake of the most rapidly escalating COVID-19 situations, it is heartening to people coming together and communities helping each other. With sNeighbour, we have augmented our existing technology infrastructure and network of 2M+ users in a way that can make a positive grassroots-level impact.”
“The intent is to provide a platform for people to come together and form communities where they can engage and exchange help and support with each other. While strongly believing that, as social creatures, all human beings need one another to survive, we are hopeful that this platform will supplement that purpose by helping the users tide over these testing times, together,” Jha added.
“sRide – a location-based discovery app — was started with a vision of creating a platform for like-minded people to form communities, to help suffering families with food, groceries, medicines and life-saving equipment. sNeighbours will help each other with cooked food, groceries, medicines, share information about medicines, oxygen tanks, hospital beds, vaccination centres with vaccines, offering rides to vaccination centres etc. Those in need will be able to get in touch with individuals and neighbours providing support with a simple click of a button.”
“Within minutes of its launch on Android Play Store, the sNeighbour feature received over 100 registrations with 50% people posting about the help they can provide with medicines, cooked food, groceries and ride to vaccination centres. Global software firms EPAM & ThoughtWorks came forward to join the cause and encouraged their employees to use the platform to provide and seek help as required.”
“As the situation improves, people will still need to exercise self-isolation and social distancing. sNeighbour is expected to provide ease of accessibility to essentials by forming social bubbles within the community and reducing the spread of coronavirus. In the long-term, sNeighbour will continue to serve as a platform to attract like-minded individuals who share common values and vision and form a community, help each other, follow and share interests, have fun and grow as human beings.”.
sRide is a social platform that helps millions to commute by carpooling. With more than 2Million users across 10 All cities, sRide has helped more than 1 Million+ users monthly to share or pool their rides. With sNeighbour, the 2 million users can come together to engage and help neighbourhoods.
