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The situation abroad is not any better. Studies show that about 35% of women experience domestic violence. These stats profile women specifically, but anyone can find themselves a victim of domestic violence. Regardless of the gender of the victim, addressing intimate violence is a human rights issue.\r\n\r\nMany people observing domestic violence often wonder out-loud why the victim doesn’t immediately leave. There are many reasons why a victim cannot extract themselves from their dangerous situation, but money tops the list on why many people stay. [According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence](https://www.coindesk.com/women-on-the-block/l), 94% of women who experience domestic abuse also experience financial abuse.  Partners can use money as a way to control their victims. Specifically this looks like the abuser denying their partner access to a bank account, forbidding the partner to hold a job, or giving a partner an “allowance”.\r\n\r\n**Zcash:**\r\n\r\nTraditional banking and its KYI system makes it very hard for people experiencing financial coercion from their partner to take control over their own money and assets. It also makes it extremely difficult to receive outside financial help. \r\n\r\nZcash, using zk-SNARKS, can allow for funds to discreetly be transferred to the victim. This initiative contains two parts. The main part is to design and deploy an app that social workers and victims could operate with ease. The second part of this initiative is to educate shelters on what is ZCash and how it can be used to help victims leave their hostile domestic situations and start the journey of becoming financially self-sufficient.\r\n\r\n**Technical Approach**\r\n\r\nWe will build a mobile app that will allow women to hold and secure Zcash. This app will come with a how-to on what is crypto and what makes ZCash different from other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and Ether.\r\n\r\nThere will be three stages of the project.\r\n\r\n1. The first stage of this project will include outreach and educating shelters about cryptocurrencies. This will include an email campaign that will reach shelters in the United States and in other countries. Interested nonprofits will be invited to a series of live webinars. The nonprofits will answer a series of questions that will be a part of the user research phase.\r\n\r\n2. We will start building the initial version of the application. The application will use [ZCash’s API](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/blob/master/doc/payment-api.md) and React Native. During this time period, we will send a newsletter to keep in touch with the participating organizations and there will be monthly community meetings via Google Hangouts.\r\n\r\n3. The third stage of the project will include the gradual rollout of the application. There will be an open call for a review of the code- we’ll probably use something like [Bounty Source](https://www.bountysource.com/).\r\n\r\n**Team and Expertise**\r\n\r\n[Portia Burton\r\n](https://www.blockchainexplainer.com/)\r\nPortia Burton creates [blockchain prototypes for companies](https://www.blockchainexplainer.com/portfolio/).\r\n\r\nBefore she worked as a full-stack developer at the The Atlantic Magazine and worked as a machine learning developer at Trapit.\r\n\r\nPortia also has a background in education and community development. She [creates accessible technical webinars](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TMPPkN3ovziAxuVFLRobg/videos) about blockchain and speaks about blockchain at [major technical conferences](https://www.blockchainexplainer.com/about-us/).\r\n\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2018Q2/issues/comments/393696009","html_url":"https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2018Q2/issues/35#issuecomment-393696009","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2018Q2/issues/35","id":393696009,"node_id":"MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM5MzY5NjAwOQ==","user":{"login":"tromer","id":487720,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjQ4NzcyMA==","avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/487720?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer","html_url":"https://github.com/tromer","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tromer/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-05-31T22:05:57Z","updated_at":"2018-05-31T22:05:57Z","author_association":"COLLABORATOR","body":"The technical requirements you described are not unique to domestic violence victims. It's shared with much broader user demographies, perhaps with minor tweaks. It doesn't make sense to go through the effort of developing a wallet from scratch for this case.\r\n\r\nPlease consider changing the technical component of your proposal to working with existing wallets (which ones?) to help them better serve your use case. The education&outreach component makes more sense as tailored to the specific audience, but again can share a lot of education material with other efforts (e.g., see #30). The total budget would be correspondingly lower.\r\n\r\nOne consideration that _is_ pretty unique to domestic violence victims is the need to hide the _presence_ of the wallet from the abusive family member. There are several academic works and projects addressing this by methods hiding apps from cursory inspection by a non-expert."}}
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