Samaritown is a service connecting elderly and youths within the community, where young people can volunteer to help elderly with essential grocery shopping. 

Elderly have been forced to face a sea of challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic, simple tasks such as grocery shopping have been deemed almost impossible with supermarkets operating limited hours and curfews in place.

Samaritown is an essential grocery shopping programme designed to ensure confined people who are immunocompromised have household grocery staples during the COVID-19 pandemic. Elderly in need can upload an inventory list of the grocery items they need on an app. Adults or youths with strong immune systems can sign up as volunteers where they help purchase and deliver the items to them. The programme creates a sense of community connecting the people from different walks of life.

Samaritown was created as part of the remote Video Interactions class during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak with the brief to help people continue performing their daily life activities. The project was divided into two parts - investigation where the team presented insights based on user research and invention, where a solution was presented based on the opportunity area.