Context

When ? Where ? Who ? Why ?

There are more than a dozen associations in Paris which help the homelesses by carrying out various missions. Among the best known are: La Croix Rouge, Les Restos du Coeur and l'Armée du Salut.

These associations require a great deal of mobilization from volunteers to be able to deploy at any time to help these destitute people and sometimes they lack the resources to do so.

The aim of our project is to put individuals that have time but maybe not the envy to engage themselves in a long-term program in touch with these associations on an ad hoc basis by geolocalising in real time the missions in which they can participate near where they are.




Target

For whom ?

We want to reach targets on two levels: on the one hand, citizens who wish to help on an ad hoc basis when they have the time and according to the mission rather than committing themselves on a regular basis to a particular NGO, and on the other hand, associations that would put their needs for each mission in real time.





Service Offered

What ? How ?

With the application Volunt'here, associations will be able to post in real time their volunteering missions and their location as well as details of the mission. Volunteers, for their part, will be able to chose among the daily-updated missions near them which are the ones that matches the more to their envy and time.





Benchmark

List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project
Homeless Plus
This free app allows the geolocation of homeless people in order to provide them with direct help. The principle is simple: whether you can donate or not, just getting close to a homeless person, geolocating them with their agreement, will enable people in the neighbourhood, associations, shopkeepers and communities to help them. Our app is focused on locating missions organized by NGO's and matching time slots with the users.
Entourage
This application enables citizens wishing to participate in the social inclusion of the homeless to propose and participate in specific solidarity missions. The main difference with our application is that associations do not intervene in this approach, only individuals propose these missions to other individuals.




References

Books, Films, Articles...
This article (click here) points to the attitude we adopt when we come across a homeless person: ignorance. Whether it is due to a lack of time, because we do not know how to help or because there are too many requests to be able to satisfy them all, it is more than ever necessary to develop an application that facilitates and frames the help to the most deprived people.
See the video below follows the journey of a student who created the association "une couverture pour l'hiver" (a blanket for the winter) to help the homeless during the winter period by distributing objects necessary for their survival. She insists on the fact that ignoring these people is a profound lack of respect and solidarity and regrets that her action cannot be deployed on a larger scale. With our application, volunteers could help her to deploy her initiative more widely.





The process

From a brainstorming...
From our mindmaps (see Thelma's, Louis's, Manon's and Fanny's), we have come to the conclusion that poor people struggle to have access to basic services and natural resources, especially food and hygiene. We have decided to focus on these services and goods.

... to an app idea

This is an extract of the wireframe of the app. We have then decided to focuse on the "volunteer" feature of the app. It allowed us to imagine and preview the main features of the app.


A step-by-step evolution

This is an extract of the first mockup of the app. We were still looking for the identity of the app. It stays very basic and does not really look like a real application.


To a real application !

This is an extract of the last mockup of the app. After it was tested by potential users, we put all of our efforts to create a complete application.

Our project definitions
Our user tests
Our wireframe
Our mockup