“Think global, act local.”
Humanity and the local-global volunteering community lacks a multilingual open-source portal to efficiently coordinate our efforts. The current crisis also shows that central support systems can become overburdened quickly so we must act ASAP.
Let’s create an international movement of next-generation volunteering that can become a positive social norm - and can help communities even after this crisis, making a long-lasting positive impact.
More details: https://bit.ly/help-neighbors
A blind person crossing the road. An old man that tripped and fell. A kid who lost their parents. A tourist who does not know the directions.
I bet you have already been in one of those situations where you saw someone needing help. And I strongly believe that you went to them and helped out.
It is in our nature – we live and survive in a community. And how can we continue on doing so under social distancing? The needs and difficulties of performing daily tasks are still there.
Here is the piece that completes this puzzle: Help your neighbors. It connects the needs and the helpers by a multilingual open-source portal, empowering communities with a fast and safe tool to solve those daily issues. With just a few clicks you can sign up to be a volunteer in your neighborhood, ask for assistance, or those of someone that you know that is in difficulties, either economic, social, or technological.
The applicability is as far as your imagination goes: grocery shopping, cleaning, company, walking the pets, etc. Every basic need. Volunteers must register and accept the terms and conditions, giving personal details and validating them via their mobile phone to ensure security and build trust.
There is always the need for that missing piece of the puzzle: we can be in a pandemic or not. It is very useful in both situations because the needs of people are still there.
The multinational team behind the idea started this Hackathon with the same core values: to help in some way. This weekend, the focus was to start on the translations of the website, to include the map on the portal, and structure the project.
Our goal is to go ahead with the project: select three neighborhoods to make pilot projects, do more real-life tests and improve the foundations to bring this to communities across Europe and the world.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7idOqRmOxs
Source code: https://github.com/Kr4z4r/joszomszedsag/
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