Thank you for sharing Leonel. On Tuesday, 28 June 2016 06:16:44 UTC-5, Leonel Câmara wrote: > > My company has a project I thought you guys would like to know about. > > In 2014 we were approached by the biggest NGO in Lisbon providing help to > the homeless (Comunidade Vida e Paz). They had a huge problem, they have > over 500 volunteers, divided by 56 teams, every day 4 teams go out and > visit more than 100 points in the city, they distribute food to the needed, > talk to them, they also try and convince them to go into rehab, solve their > documentation problems, and direct them to programs specific to their needs > to get them out of the streets. They managed all this using paper reports > and excel spreadsheets. > > Thanks to web2py ease of use and features, namely, GIS support we were > able to do a custom made management system for them which includes among > many other features : > > - Route maker where you can create the routes your teams will use. > - Create teams and assign them to a route. > - Each time a team goes out they have to make a report where they insert > what they did in each point of the route, allowing among other things to > optimize routes and improve the logistics (e.g. how many meals they take in > the vans). > - Browse the data of all the reports so a team can know what happened in > their route the previous days. > - The people they're helping also have a profile in the platform where all > the volunteers can follow the steps being done to help them (it was a big > problem for volunteer motivation that they didn't know what happened to the > people that got out of the street). > - Register sightings of the people they're helping so they can more easily > search for them if needed. > - Schedule appointments in specialized help centers. > - Reddit like debate area for the volunteers. > - Classifieds for urgent needs. > - Dynamic quiz system to verify the volunteer's knowledge and motivations. > > Right now we're working on making the system flexible enough that it can > be used by all kinds of NGOs working on routes. > > If you want to support the project you can vote for us in a contest we're > participating in: > https://bigsmartcities.com/en/content/emvoltapt-aidlog > (it requires a phone number to which it sends a SMS to verify that people > only vote once) > > Thank you to all web2py developers for making this possible. > >
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