Community Driven Volunteering

[IMPACT]

We present an innovative alternative to the current volunteer programs by implementing a peer-to-peer model. Our desire is to build relationship and connect with indigenous locals in villages in Africa who can culturally understand where help is truly needed. At the same time, we hope to rely on local villagers to host volunteers, creating lasting income for themselves.

Current volunteer programs are bogged down with excessive administrative staff, communication and planning stresses, and exuberant expenses that produce inefficient aid as advertised. Furthermore, charities and “social engagement” companies have a history of corruption and mismanagement of funds.

Until now, Africa has been largely offline and muted to the rest of the world, which has led to of the inability to understand clearly what “needs to be done” as expressed by the native population. It appears that for western-minded companies the motivation and decisiveness of “what we are coming to do” is determined by which experience is attractive enough to garner future monetary loyalty

We see a variety of challenges ahead, namely, the logistics of working with a network of people who are volunteering their time and finances. We are trying to reach those that need help most, and these are typically the most remotely located with the lowest living conditions. It may not be realistic to assume that fifteen Americans will be willing to live in these conditions for an extended period. In addition, a small village may not be able to sustain the amount of people arriving.

Secondly, we are concerned with how can we ensure that the volunteers will come when the time arrives?

When the natives are relying  say, 30 volunteers, and only ten show up, they would risk being put at significant loss. A similar concern is how to be sure that the person in Africa is preparing adequately and with enough time to have the situation ready for the volunteers.

[FEASIBILITY]

Q2 2022 is for researching, development of UX/UI, market research, business development and logistical planning

Starting Q3/Q4 2022 we begin exploring the option to collaborate with other local Cardano projects, as we begin advertising a pilot proof of concept volunteer program.

Income is set at 1,000 USD per person per month. -> two people for eight months (may through dec 2022) is 16,000 USD

we estimate around 20,000 USD for development of the app

5,000 USD will be used for Advertising.

the Remaining 9,000 USD will be used to subsidize either the app development or advertising. if unused, will go towards scholarships for pilot program.

Noach will oversee the implementation of the Q2 2022 (Development, Logistics, and begging the Back-End development), as well as begin to research and connect with possible collaborations in Q3.

 While Noach is working out to the technicalities, Avi will begin working on the front end including: UI/UX, Product Design User Research, Usability testing and marketing strategies.

[AUDITABILITY]

At the end of the year, we would like to have a fully developed "Product" with a set date for the pilot Program.

Success for this project will be a successful implementation of a Pilot trip, and receiving positive feedback from both the Volunteer receiver and the volunteers themself, and seeing a project seen through that meets our goals and standards of a successful oversea volunteer program.

at a grander scale, we see our product being the go to hub for worldwide volunteering in an open source and truly meaningful way.

Entirely new.