BRIDGE IT: Part 5— The website

We are four girls all over Europe and our Bridge it! -team is helping volunteers to become better in their work. The aim of Bridge it! is to connect volunteers to each other and to provide valid information and education to them across countries. If you are planning to become a volunteer or if you are already volunteering just be a Bridge and join us here: https://sticklkata.wixsite.com/bridgeit . Welcome to share our journey in Medium! ❤

After our fail with refugees centers, we changed our perspective. Beyond that, we also had to think over our Sustainable Development goals, because it was number four (quality education) and the second one was number 10 (reduce inequalities). However, we needed to change this after that we could not really get in touch with the refugee centers. So we determine to focus more on number four, and turned to volunteers.

As we had first-hand experiences about how hard it is to be (or trying to be) a volunteer, we decided to create a website, where people can find everything they need. In this we would posted personal stories of refugees, collect the organizations who work with them, and also a bunch of applications, where want-to-be-volunteers could learn the basic of different languages. This way — with the basic knowledge of the refugee’s native language — would be a little bit easier to help them.

We would also have a contact platform — but a very simple. People, who have questions, send us an email, and after we receive it, we answer them in little “blog posts” on the website — of course be observant of the person’s personality.

After we created the basic of the website, we move on to the next step, so we will ask prospect users: volunteers; ones, who want to be one; and a few random people in the street to ask for their opinion.

Our team: Saara Kyllönen, Kata Stickl , Ivana Cervena and Svetlana Lukyanova

Our story: part 1 , part 2, part 3, part 4, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9