Healthy food means much more than sheer nourishment; refugees want to be actively involved in the food sourcing as it augments self-esteem. One of the most essential nutrition items missing in Viennese refugee shelters is fruits and vegetables. At the same time a lot of healthy food ends in the bin. Sharry is a one stop solution to these problems. Designed for easy understanding and usage Sharry helps refugees have access to healthy food, while giving them an opportunity to interact with locals. Sharry is based on the idea of demand and waste allocation of food resources in a city. Excess groceries that would go to waste for insufficient time to eat them, moving places or traveling plans, can be posted online and picked up by refugees in demand. Team: Lisi Penker, Kathrin Zelger, Jorge Coelho and Hassaan Idrees

1. Foodtinder for refugees or a smartphone app to
get the new community members to mingle with
Europeans based on healthy food
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2. The team
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sjCGxaCBe_DnjuB
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Jorge G Coelho
Lisi Penker Kathrin Zelger
Hassaan Idrees

3. Design challenge:
How Might We
Provide Healthier
Food Options for
People in Need?

4. Collection of team assumptions
and research planning

5. Observation clustering and themes

6. Primary user / origin
Refugees from Mediterranean:
● Afghan - second biggest nationality
● 34% Afghans pass through Pakistan
en route to Europe
According to recent Afghan profiling
(2016/05):
● Main assistance gap en route - food
● 52% travel with >5 family members
http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php

7. Secondary user /
destiny
http://tracks.unhcr.org/20
15/10/a-warm-austrian-wel
come-for-refugees/

8. Connecting the dots
http://www.slideshare.net/ifpri/ensuring-global-food-and-nutrition-security
-the-role-of-europe
Key insights:
● Connecting urban elements (surplus fruits
and vegetables, urban vegetable gardens,
goods donors) and shared knowledge
could potentially help bridge missing links
to resources (bicycles, knowledge
databases, etc.)
● Healthy food options can come hand in
hand with other important approaches for
refugee integration.
● Refugee shelters have huge manpower,
still the people suffer from the lack of
having nothing to do

9. How Might We…*:
● ... overcome gaps in the access to
fruits and vegetables, curbing waste
and augmenting connectedness?
● … combine goals of refugee
integration with an increased
availability and desirability of
healthy food?
● … use the manpower of a refugee
shelter to provide for healthier food
options?
* Challenge questions developed from
key insights identified

10. Storyboard
For animated video, go to: https://youtu.be/otcFQwYTd2g

11. sharry’s story
Healthy food means much more than sheer nourishment; refugees want to be
actively involved in the food sourcing as it augments self-esteem. One of the
most essential nutrition items missing in Viennese refugee shelters is fruits and
vegetables. At the same time a lot of healthy food ends in the bin. Sharry is a
one stop solution to these problems.
Designed for easy understanding and usage Sharry helps refugees have access
to healthy food, while giving them an opportunity to interact with locals.
Sharry is based on the idea of demand and waste allocation of food resources
in a city. Excess groceries that would go to waste for insufficient time to eat
them, moving places or traveling plans, can be posted online and picked up by
refugees in demand.

12. APP User
Interface

13. Link to video:
https://youtu.be/hzI7rubcTyA

14. Key benefits of
sharry
● minimizes the problem of food waste
and food allocation
● brings healthier food options for
people in need
● brings locals and refugees closer
together
● engages refugees in the food sourcing
and preparation process actively

15. Contributors and
unreferenced
sources
● Isabel Cebola - Casa Association - Faro
delegation, NGO
● Sara Gonçalves - Coordinator of Casa
Association - Faro delegation, NGO
● Smart eating guide (Alimentação
Inteligente, 2012 DGS Portugal)
● Faqeer Muhammad - Darulkhair Seminary
● Farhan Yusafzai and Safiullah Ahmadzai -
Afghan refugees and engineers, whose
families live in Pakistan
● Mohamed Yasir - Aakra Foods
● Karin Dobernig - Research Associate
Sustainable Behavior
● Kabir Naimi - Refugee Camp Employee
● Friederike Krentz - Welcome Dinner Berlin
● Alexandra Söderbergh - RAdler und
Sammler
● Samira - Refugee at Refugee Center Vienna
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16. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.
Team: Elisabeth Penker, Hassaan Idrees,
Jorge Coelho, Kathrin Zelger
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