Privacy-first platform for discovering substance-use treatment, MAT, rehabilitation, counselling and recovery-support services in Tanzania.
# Matawi Tanzania
Matawi is a Kiswahili-first, privacy-first directory for finding MAT, methadone, counselling, mental-health and recovery support in Tanzania.
## Current milestone
This is the Stage 1.2 local website/PWA prototype. It contains:
- Kiswahili and English interface text
- local filtering by region, district and service
- responsive mobile-first styling
- the Matawi logo and brand colours
- a web app manifest and service worker
- privacy and trust explanations
- an expanded directory of MAT, recovery and mental-health services
- a private guidance page that does not submit or store answers
- a bilingual treatment-information page explaining the available service types
- bilingual About and Privacy pages
- a clean, spacious interface inspired by modern product websites
- natural Kiswahili copy written for everyday use
It deliberately contains no accounts, database, analytics, advertising trackers, report-submission endpoint or sensitive-data storage.
## Requirements
- Node.js 22.13 or newer
- npm
- VS Code or another code editor
Check Node.js:
```bash
node --version
npm --version
```
## Run locally
Open a terminal inside this folder and run:
```bash
npm install
npm run dev
```
Then open:
```text
localhost
```
Stop the local server by pressing `Control + C` in the terminal.
## Production build test
This only builds on your computer. It does not publish anything:
```bash
npm run build
npm start
```
## Important privacy boundary
Anonymous reporting is marked as a **future implementation**. It is not part of the current website and must not be presented as available.
Development will resume only after the project has confirmed:
- who will receive and respond to requests
- correct medical and emergency-handling procedures
- the minimum information genuinely required
- encryption and metadata-minimisation requirements
- retention and automatic-deletion periods
- access controls, safeguarding and incident response
- applicable T …