An Australian social platform designed to assist folks with disabilities make mates and develop their social circle has launched in a bid to scale back loneliness. 

Alvie, based by CEO Steve Bear, was born out of first-hand realisation of how troublesome it may be for youngsters with disabilities to search out mates they’ll relate to.

The Queensland-based social platform was created to interrupt down the barrier of social isolation felt by individuals who reside with disabilities. Bear, who spent a few years working in a single day camps for youngsters with disabilities, noticed how vital it was for disabled folks to have the power to attach with like-minded souls who share related life experiences, pursuits and hobbies.

“From my expertise of working with many youngsters with every kind of disabilities, I perceive that loneliness and isolation is without doubt one of the largest challenges these youngsters face on a day-to-day, and may result in lack of private and social growth, in addition to an elevated danger of psychological sickness,” Bear stated.

“Constructing Alvie was a possibility to offer folks with disabilities at any age, a secure area created particularly for them, the place they’ll really feel comfy, accepted for who they’re and expertise extra social interactions that may hopefully type into significant friendships.”

Alvie’s algorithm has been designed to curate an expertise whereby members are matched based mostly on similarities in pursuits, location, age, and hobbies.

“Alvie’s goal is to match folks with a incapacity who’ve related pursuits and hobbies, to allow them to simply join, make significant friendships and take advantage of out of life,” Mr Bear stated.

Along with one-on-one on-line chats, the NDIS-friendly app offers help in facilitating in-person meetups. AI-powered content material moderation methods are in place to make sure chats (and potential dangerous content material) are monitored.

Bear is targeted on security for customers, so the onboarding course of contains an Australian police test and different steps previous to licensed membership.

The Alvie web-app is free for customers till mid February and everybody who indicators to the platform throughout the 90-day free interval will obtain a 50% discounted membership.