Hania

Drawing on her programming skills, Hania created the "aidbot" to narrow the gap between the demand and supply of aid.

This information is then recorded onto a Google spreadsheet which Hania and her team of unpaid volunteers, made up of friends and family, access to distribute aid such as food, blankets, mattresses, medicine and clothes.

Hania used her spare time to build the bot using the website Callbell.eu, which is commonly used by businesses to engage with customers on Meta's platforms such as ������sApp, Instagram and Facebook messenger.

Bilal Merie, a volunteer working with Hania says many of the problems they face are due to the "high demand but short supply" of aid.

Last autumn Hania Zataari, a mechanical engineer who works for Lebanon's Ministry of Industry put her skills to use as war in the country raged on.