About AidNow
AidNow is building civilian emergency infrastructure — free, accessible emergency knowledge for ordinary people.
Why AidNow exists
When an emergency happens, professional help — ambulances, firefighters, trained paramedics — is often not physically present in the first minutes. The person already there may be a parent, neighbour, teacher, driver, colleague, security guard, shopkeeper, or stranger.
Most of these people want to help. But they panic. They search using imperfect language. They may have poor connectivity, may not know medical terminology, and may not know what they should not do.
AidNow exists to bridge that gap — not as another first-aid website, but as civilian emergency infrastructure: a free, accessible knowledge system that helps ordinary people find, understand, and act on emergency guidance in the critical minutes before professional help arrives.
What we mean by civilian emergency infrastructure
This is not merely a first-aid website. AidNow is building a layered system of emergency knowledge — digital and physical — designed for the people who are already at the scene.
Built
- Immediate emergency guidance — 500+ emergency scenarios with step-by-step instructions
- Emergency search — natural language, panic phrases, Hindi and English (15,600+ search triggers)
- Learn — 98 emergency skills, myths, family learning, and structured pathways
- Prepare — checklists and household preparedness
- Recover — post-emergency guidance
- AidNow Insights — 34 editorial articles on civilian preparedness, emergency design, and myths
- Physical resources — printable posters, emergency cards, and environment packs for homes, apartments, schools, offices, and public spaces
- Offline access — service worker caching for critical scenarios
- Evidence architecture — canonical claims mapped to sources, 30 reviewer dossiers
In development
- Professional review pipeline (architecture built, reviewers not yet recruited)
- Visual instruction system (canonical image briefs created, illustrations pending)
- Hindi language support (partial)
Long-term vision
- Audio emergency guidance
- Multilingual discovery beyond Hindi
- Community preparedness tools
- More physical emergency infrastructure formats
- Professional reviewer network
The environment should remember when people cannot
Emergency posters on apartment walls. Laminated procedure cards next to fire extinguishers. Visual guides in school classrooms. Equipment labels that teach while they wait. AidNow is working to make useful emergency knowledge available not only through a website but through the physical environments where emergencies happen.
The physical asset architecture includes 30 asset types, 15 environment packs, and a poster design system — specifications for placing emergency knowledge where people actually encounter crises, not only where they think to search.
How we build and review content
AidNow content is researched from published emergency guidance — sources like the Red Cross, WHO, and national emergency authorities. Content is structured into canonical claims, each mapped to evidence.
All content is currently in Draft status — researched and structured, but not yet professionally reviewed. We state this clearly because honesty about review status is a safety requirement. Read our full review process →
Accessibility as safety
AidNow is designed for people under stress — injured, low-literacy, disabled, elderly, children — on cheap phones, with poor connectivity, who may be using the platform for the first time during the worst moment of their lives. This means large touch targets, high contrast, plain language, offline support, keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and visual-first design. Read our accessibility approach →
Open about our limitations
- All content is currently in Draft status
- No professional reviews completed (0)
- Hindi language support is partial
- Audio guidance is not available
- Visual placeholders where illustrations will appear — canonical image briefs exist, but illustrations are not yet produced
- AidNow is a small independent initiative — this is early-stage work
Founded by
AidNow is an independent initiative founded by Trupti Gavit. For questions or feedback, contact truptiggavit@gmail.com.
Help us build AidNow
If you are a qualified emergency professional, translator, researcher, or accessibility expert, we would welcome your help reviewing content. See Help us review AidNow → or contact us →.
In an emergency, call 112 (India) or your local emergency number.