e-Volunteers

Abstract

Volunteer work has become an integral part of our society. Organizing such activities is a monumental task. It involves multiple stake holders including organizations who organize such drives, people who volunteer, and the places where work is done. The challenge is to exchange information efficiently among stake holders. Organizers are unable to hire volunteers without going through a hectic process of meeting the people and volunteers have difficulty in finding organizations to work with. This project is solution to the above mentioned problems. It aims at bringing all the interested individual and parties together on a common platform, and to solve the problem of information dissemination on volunteer work to a vast audience. The project is a web portal that will work for the areas in Pakistan where any kind of volunteer work is required. The main features of the application are Location based search of volunteer drives, bringing all the interested parties on a single platform, SMS based subscription to give the user options of getting notifications, through the portal the user can comment, post, upload a photo and individuals can be able to launch volunteering drives.