 From Santa Clara, California, it's the Cube, covering Technovation World Pitch Summit 2019, brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media. Now, here's Sonya Tagare. Hi, and welcome to the Cube. I'm your host, Sonya Tagare, and we're here at Oracle's Ag News Campus in Santa Clara, California, covering Technovation's World Pitch Summit 2019, a pitch competition in which girls from around the world develop mobile apps in order to create positive change in the world. With us today, we have Team Tech Witches from India with Ananya Grover, Vasudeh Siddhinder, Vanchika Yadav, Aretha, and Anushka Sharma. Welcome to the Cube, and congratulations on being finalists. Thank you. So, your app is called Mate3. Can you tell us more about that? Yeah, our app is an Android application which connects old age homes with orphanages so that senior citizens can spend time with orphan children. And individuals like you and I and everyone else can volunteer and donate to old age homes and orphanages through our app. Okay, and so how would someone use the app? Can you go through step by step? So, as an individual, if you log into the app, you'll see two lists. So if you press on connect, you could either press on connect to an old age home or connect to an orphanage. So for instance, I want to connect to an old age home. I press that button. I would see a list of old age homes. And that list is a list of organizations that have signed up on the app. So I press and they are arranged on the order of proximity to my location. So I press on whichever one I want to view and then I see all of their details. I could contact them, connect to them by messaging them, calling them up, viewing their website or even navigating to their location using Google Maps. Then I could also press on see what donations they require and see exactly what they need. For instance, if an organization requires clothes or blankets, I would be able to view that and donate accordingly. Okay, so it's not just introducing older people to orphans, it's more about like, just like what can we do as a society to like donate to these organizations. And as the administrator of an old age home, you can connect to an orphanage and organize meetings between senior citizens and children so they can spend time together and have fun activities. For instance, we have already conducted two activities in which people mingle together and the children were singing songs and they were even sharing stories. They were dancing together. It was really heartwarming. Wow, and do you have any other success stories from what's happened so far? So the two meetings that have been conducted already were huge successes in our opinion. So we had children from an orphanage called Saib Bal Kripa going to an old age home and they spent time with the elders there, talked to them, mingled with them, learned about their life experiences and in the other meeting children were singing songs and the elders and children were sort of having fun together and it was amazing. So I visited your Instagram page which looks amazing by the way. Thank you. And I noticed that there were a list of activities for them to do when they meet each other so can you tell us more about those activities? Yes, so some of the activities I already talked about them but they could also sort of have a picnic together, get some food for each other or the children could make drawings, write poems for the elders and those can be put up in the old age home itself so that even after the children leave it's like a reminder and a token of love for the elders that reminds them that they are loved and they are cared for and they could also have other activities like yoga sessions together, maybe read books to each other, those are the kinds of activities that are listed on our app. How did you come up with this idea? Well, the initial inspiration or I wouldn't say inspiration, it was a personal incident that happened to me so I lost both of my grandparents within the span of a year. I lost my grandmother to cancer and then after she passed away my grandfather sort of felt like really lonely and that he had lost all purpose in life and I could see firsthand the effects that loneliness could have on someone's mental and social well-being and that led to health problems that he never ever had before and we lost him unfortunately in January this year so I really wanted to work on senior care and then my teammate Vasudha suggested that we should also include orphans within this since we in India especially we have a very strong familial bond between children and grandparents and these children do not have that same connection they grow up without that kind of nurturing love that only parents or grandparents can provide to a child and so we felt that we should be solving both of these problems and bridging them together in some way and that's how we came up with this idea. Oh, it sounds like it's an amazing idea and it also sounds like it could help more than just the community that you're in but it could really help the whole world because so many people deal with loneliness especially in old age or orphans who want love from a grandparent or a parent so it just sounds like it could be really useful to a lot of people. Thank you. So how has your experience at Technovation been? It has been an amazing journey we weren't expecting to make it to this level and it's just phenomenal and a huge honour to be standing here and we began by just we just formed we are all classmates and we have known each other for a while so we just found out about this competition formed a team, started working towards it and we were really passionate about this cause so working and taking time out of school to work on this just came naturally simply because how important this cause was for us personally and then so throughout the Technovation journey we kept on learning new things not all of us were aware of how to code applications so we used Technovation's curriculum and other online resources to teach ourselves those skills along the way and developed our entire project submission and yeah it's just amazing to be here now preaching in front of such a huge audience. Absolutely, it's such a huge success for all of you so can you tell us more about how you all met? You said you're classmates right? Yeah, so the four of us are classmates and Anushka is in another class within the school so we already sort of knew each other and I found out about the competition online and Technovation seemed really like a great platform especially because it's like it specifically wants to empower women to code and go into still male dominated fields like computer science and entrepreneurship so the four of us are science students and she studies commerce and that's how we came together and started working. That's amazing so where do you hope to see this app you know if you get the funding if you win today where do you hope to see it in five years? Right now our app has already been launched in the Play Store and we have about 1000 plus downloads in the future we would like to not just expand out of the Delhi and Sia region where we're currently working and go pan India and hopefully in the future in about 10 years maybe spread this throughout the world because I feel like communities across the world can benefit from Maithri. That's amazing, best of luck to all of you and good luck for your pitch tonight and congratulations once again. Thank you so much. So this has been Team Tech Witches from India you're watching theCUBE, stay tuned for more.