Dubai understudies win Dh80,000 prize for bathing wheelchair

Their innovation incorporates packs of water and a filtration framework appended to a wheelchair

A gathering of understudies have been granted Dh80,000 for making a wheelchair that enables impaired Muslims to do bathing for supplication with least development. 

Mahra Al Falasi and Hassa Al Marzooqi, second year understudies at Dubai's Zayed University, were enlivened by their decided relatives who are in wheelchairs subsequent to seeing their battle of doing bathing. 

Their development incorporates packs of water and a filtration framework joined to a wheelchair, which enables clients to do bathing with comfort. 

Their tasks were appeared at the UAE's biggest science reasonable, Think Science, prior this year and now they won the cash as a component of the Seeds of the Future activity at Gitex. 

"This wheelchair has been intended for individuals with assurance and can be utilized to encourage the bathing," Al Falasi said. "For petition, there is additionally a compass we included which assists with deciding the Kaabah heading. The motivation behind this venture was to give the individuals of assurance certainty and accommodation for bathing and supplication. We needed to support them and make things simpler. 

"A portion of the difficulties we confronted while making this task was the manner by which to make it resemble an ordinary wheelchair, so it doesn't stand apart a lot with the filtration framework and water sacks joined to it. However, we do have relatives who are resolved and they attempted the wheelchair and thought that it was extremely useful." 

She said they intend to utilize the reward cash to build up this task further. The group intends to assemble the wheelchair without any preparation this time, so they can alter each part of it and include more highlights into it. 

"We want to work the greatest number of as we can with this cash. At the point when we won, from the outset, we were stunned yet we were likewise upbeat as we are a bit nearer to accomplishing our fantasy about helping the decided individuals." 

Another triumphant venture pointed towards helping individuals of assurance was 'Kalematy', which means 'my words' from Arabic. Three understudies from the Higher College of Technology - Shaima Al Awadhi, Maryam and Asma ­-were compensated Dh20,000 for this task. 

Kalematy is a keen application that permits individuals with chemical imbalance, particularly nonverbal ones, to speak with others. 

"The application offers the clients numerous photographs they can use to impart and express their feelings. Normally, nonverbal mentally unbalanced kids battle with telling other individuals of their needs and feelings," Al Awadhi said. "However, with this application, they can utilize distinctive photographs that are accessible to communicate. 

"It will enable the guardians to realize what they need. The thought was roused by one of the gathering individuals whose cousin is mentally unbalanced and nonverbal. He remained with them for two or three months and it was troublesome speaking with them." 

The group intends to utilize the reward cash to divert this application from a model into a completely utilitarian application. They plan to include computerized reasoning into it and include a chatbot.