Report completed by: Dr. Abhishek Appaji abhishek.appaji.m@ieee.org

1. Milestones: 

● Procuring the raw materials for printing – 1 week 

● Design of a few 3D printed products – 2 days 

● Printing the kit and its content – 1 week 

● Assembling the contents in the kit – 1 day 

● Distribution of kits to the urban slums in Siddapura along with our partner NGO – 1 week 

● Feedback after one week – 1 day 

● Analysis – 2 days 

2. Organizational Units (OUs) 

● IEEE Bangalore Section SIGHT group 

3. External Collaboration 

● Bharath Vikas Parishad – https://bvpindia.com/ 

● They have helped us to identify the community and unmet needs. They helped us with the kit distribution. 

4. Stakeholders Involved 

We had multiple stakeholders in this project: 

● Region 10: Sponsors of the project 

● IEEE Volunteers: Around 10 IEEE SIGHT Volunteers implemented these projects as agreed in collaboration with NGO, Beneficiary community, and IEEE BMSCE Student Branch.

● NGO: Bharath Vikas Parishad South Pranth who helped us in the distribution of the kit effectively and also extended financial help. The NGO also helped by connecting to the local authorities and appraised them about the self-care kit which was appreciated. 

● Beneficiary community: The beneficiary community here is Urban Slum in a place called gavipuram in Bangalore. 100 households got benefited from the kit. ● IEEE BMSCE Student Branch: IEEE BMSCE Student branch is the most active student branch. Prof. Sreekanth who is in charge of the 3D printing research and development lab of BMSCE contributed towards the project’s success as agreed. 

5. Stakeholders impacted 

● IEEE Volunteers who helped us were around 10. 

● NGO: Around 4 volunteers from NGO, helped us in the distribution of the kit. ● Beneficiary community: We had a total of around 100 households and at an average considering 5 people per house. 

● IEEE BMSCE Student branch: 5 professional faculty members and 5 student members helped in the execution and implementation of the project. 

6. Outputs 

● Number of households benefited: 100 – These are the number of kits distributed ● Number of individuals benefited (assuming 5 per home): 0500 ● Number of kits containing finger cover, elbow dispensers, handy and door opener: 10100 each 

Additional outcomes 

● The kits also had miscellaneous items which included masks, alcoholic swabs, hand sanitizer gel, latex gloves, and a carrying pouch which served all the people in the underserved community households. 

● The above claim is in line with the results obtained from the analysis of the data collected from the users. 

7. Outcomes 

● Approximately 100 households stand benefitted from this project which in turn helps in breaking the chain of COVID19 pandemic spread especially in the underserved community.

● This project also sensitizes the community about hygiene through the usage training which will be carried by the IEEE Volunteers and partner NGO. ● The NGO will be adapting the technology for scaling in other slums adopted by them. 

● A detailed survey is conducted on a suitable sample size from the distributed population in urban slums and further analysis will be carried out for replication and scaling. 

● These details along with key performance indicators will be shared with the appropriate government agencies and our partner NGOs. 

● We also discussed the analysis of this project with the government for adopting this project through the local authorities. 

● The design files are attached. It is simple in design and can be mass distributed after the successful implementation of this project for scaling purposes. ● 100+ kits were distributed out of which almost 100+ have answered the survey after 1 week of distribution of the kit. The survey results are attached. ● The above claim is in line with the results obtained from the analysis of the data collected from the users. 

8. Communicating Results 

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The results are shared with the Bangalore Section newsletter and in 5 different webinars organized recently. A technical paper about the project and its learning is in progress. 

9. What were your biggest lessons learned from this project? 

The biggest lesson was the working of elbow based sanitizer. It did not work as anticipated and broke while transporting. Hence, we redesigned it and distributed it. However, further changes have to be done for the next phase of the project. 

10. What part of the project is the biggest success and why? 

Many of the end-users have opined that they would buy this kit at a cost, if made available in the market. 

The Analytics of the survey can be seen in the link below https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1x71841bVViQl3GOh6XwbzZKu8Tt_j3zzeL2_IuFN Mx0/viewanalytics

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