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LAMIUK Portal
A private portal and calling platform for African migrants in the UK.
A secure portal for legal African migrants in the UK: registration with email verification, profiles, support groups, scheduled meetings, direct chat with administrators, and audio and video calls that run in the browser.
Support groups are the reason the calling is in-browser rather than a link to somewhere else. Asking people in a vulnerable position to install an app, make an account somewhere new and trust a third party with who they are talking to is a barrier; opening a tab is not.
Calls are peer-to-peer over WebRTC with a TURN relay behind them, because the networks people actually use — mobile data, shared housing, public wifi — are exactly the ones that block direct connections.
How it is built
- In-browser audio and video calls, with nothing to install and no third-party account.
- A self-hosted TURN relay so calls still connect on restrictive mobile and shared networks.
- Real-time chat and presence over Phoenix Channels rather than polling.
- Support groups and scheduled meetings as first-class objects, not calendar links.
- Email-verified registration, with administrator chat kept separate from group channels.