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title: "HIAS - Young mother refugee app | Relief Applications"
description: "HIAS wanted to support adolescent refugee mothers aged 12 to 24 in Kenya. We created a mobile app and a web platform to help the team identify key depression…"
url: https://reliefapplications.org/projects/hias-young-mother-refugee-app/
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updated: 2026-11-11
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# HIAS - Young mother refugee app

HIAS wanted to support adolescent refugee mothers aged 12 to 24 in Kenya. We created a mobile app and a web platform to help the team identify key depression symptoms and help young mothers manage common perinatal mental health concerns, with a gamified app, relaxation resources, a wellbeing questionnaire and a dashboard for support staff.

- **Client**: HIAS
- **When**: Mar 2019–Apr 2020
- **Team**: 3 people
- **Services**: [App development](https://reliefapplications.org/services/app-dev-and-maintenance/)
- **Technologies**: PHP, Symfony, Angular, Ionic, iOS, Android, Azure
- **Industry**: Protection and Refugees
- **SDGs**: 3. Good health and well-being, 5. Gender equality
- **Client website**: [hias.org](https://hias.org/)

The organization wanted to create an application to assist and support adolescent refugee mothers aged between 12-24 in Kenya. We created an application and a web platform as a tool to help the HIAS team identify key depression symptoms and help young mothers manage common perinatal mental health concerns they experience during the pre-natal and post-natal period.

## The challenge

- Transform the tool for empowerment through gamification
- Provide access to resources as relaxation techniques
- Allow wellbeing monitoring progression of young mothers

## What we did

- Mobile gaming app for the refugee mothers
- Questionnaire designed to gather relevant information regarding their psycho-social wellbeing
- Client relationship management (CRM) dashboard for the HIAS support staff to add information and resources and access to monitoring tool

![Young mother refugee app, HIAS: screen 1](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p083/01.webp)

![Young mother refugee app, HIAS: screen 2](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p083/02.webp)

![Young mother refugee app, HIAS: screen 3](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p083/03.webp)

![Young mother refugee app, HIAS: screen 4](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p083/04.webp)

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