The problem:
No one becomes refugee by choice.
Half of forcibly displaced persons are under 18 years old who had no choice but to flee their home in order to escape a certain (violent) death and/or persecution. They have become “foreigners” in their own countries and “refugees” abroad. They have lost it all, left it all and are searching for a new place to call home.
Wars and climate change are already forcing millions of people to leave their homes everyday, and by 2050 , the World Bank estimates that 143 million people will be displaced by climate change only.
Our solution at Techfugees:
Our mission is to leave no displaced persons behind
in
an increasingly digitalized world
- It scales, so that solutions we help to develop and deploy may always be replicated and have impact on a much wider scale
- It is disruptives in challenging the status quo; enabling collective intelligence, international cross-sector collaboration and resource knowledge share;
- It is able to democratize, breaking down barriers to provide equitable access for refugees to requiring basic needs and service.
- It enables refugees to apply grass-roots entrepreneurship to bootstrap frugal innovation to help themselves to answer their needs
At the same time, all around the globe, compassionate and altruistic humans have designed & created solutions using new technologies rethinking the way we serve displaced humans’ needs & challenging the status quo. Nonetheless, these solutions are too often neglected, unknown by institutional donors, and struggle to find support to continue making a difference locally or at a larger scale.
Our NEW solution: Basefugees!
These projects need (more) promotion and support. There is currently a lack of coordination, update and knowledge sharing to facilitate the quick and impactful development of those few innovations. We also want to make sure entrepreneurs around the world don’t start from scratch, and get a source of information and inspiration before reinventing the wheel, as they work to address access to information, health, education, employment and social inclusion.
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How will your donation make a difference?
This fundraising will help us to Kickstart Basefugees with best of breed selected digital projects from our Community as beta testers; We have chosen 5 digital ethical products or services supporting displaced persons' access to information, health, employment, education, and social inclusion that are already being used by displaced people.
Our objective is to raise 50,000 euros to help these 5 projects
Our local volunteer teams on the ground, called “Chapters”, identifiy, curate and support local innovations, in respect with our Guiding Principles , from ideation to international scaling, in two different ways:
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Technical support
: direct mentoring, technical and intellectual resource
and perks sharing, punctual technical community support through
hackathons, design sprints and workathons;
- Deployment support : connection with displaced communities to facilitate co-construction and user feedback, connection with grassroot organisations and international NGOs facilitating the scaling and maintenance of the innovations; Ex: Faceless Hackers and the KRC (read the article)
Where your donations will go:
While the projects will be testing the platform and working with our volunteers on the ground, we plan to use the funds raised to:
- Buy IT material, softwares and facilitate the deployment of the solutions with field user testing (more details in each sub-campaign);
- Continuously improve the technical development (back, front, UX) of Basefugees to answer the projects' needs;
- Create a trend report on the challenge addressed including a mapping of the existing tech solutions available on the market;
10% of all funds raised go directly to the 5 independent projects we support
What’s next?
This crowdfunding campaign is a starting point. We will be using the feedback from the 5 selected alpha users to improve the platform Basefugees from June until November 2021. All results and impact will be shared in a public report in December 2021. From January 2022, the objective is to scale the support to 10 vetted scalable and investable projects per semester.
Contact us
Reach out to our Global Community Manager Louise Brosset for more information
📲 +337 56 88 99 14
