Tawhid, an app geared toward helping young Muslims navigate and balance their faith and daily lives, launched just before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Hasnain Baloach remembers it being a challenge from a young age to balance his religious identity and the world around him.
"There's been many different moments where, based on my faith, or based on the practice of my faith, I've been judged or I've been looked down on," Baloach said. The University of Calgary graduate has worked in tech for more than six years with companies that tried to solve issues for industries like construction and health care, among others, but he noticed a glaring gap."The Muslim community, it was just very underserved," Baloach said.
Tawhid is a subscription-based app that asks users to pay a $10 monthly fee that will be donated to a charity when the user completes the unique tasks they've set out for themselves.He would write reminders on the notes app on his iPhone, things that would keep him grounded in his faith and connect to his community.
"Even if your workplace or university is very encouraging of practising faith, it's still very difficult to do when you're around with a circle of friends that doesn't," Baloach said. The app's founder and CEO Hasnain Baloach says he wanted to make something to tackle a gap in the tech space.
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