The woman who built an ‘aidbot’ for displaced people in Lebanon Reporter, BBC Trending• @rehakansara Hania coded a chatbot to use on WhatsApp that helps displaced people in Lebanon 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. Hailing from Sidon, South Lebanon, she created a chatbot on WhatsApp that simplified access to much-needed aid. "They lost their houses, their savings, their work, everything they had built," Hania says, referring to those forced from their homes by war. On 23 September, Israel dramatically escalated its offensive against the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, with which it had been fighting a spiralling conflict since Hezbollah attacked Israel in October 2023. According to the Lebanese […]
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