Why

Limited impact scope and lack of sustainability are two main challenges for volunteer activities. Some of the reasons are as below:

1. Usually the income of the NGO is from charity donation, which might not be stable;

2. The salary or allowance for the employees of the NGO is usually not high, and the volunteer individuals lack long-term incentives and have to quit due to some life change, e.g. no time after graduating from university or having family;

3. Small organisations are hard to attract much attention or resource, e.g. not easy to raise awareness outside the local community, hard to convince people to donate due to lack of transparency.

Besides, volunteer individuals also hope their love-heart behaviours to be acknowledged by more people or qualified for some personal usage, e.g. evidence to show society contribution when applying permanent resident or university entrance.

What

The detailed ways we want to help are as below:

1. Issue Proof of Volunteer SBT to volunteer individuals for each activity, store the images & videos through permanent storage protocol like Arweave, to acknowledge the love-heart behaviours, which help raise awareness beyond the local;

2. Support on-chain mutual acknowledgement and endorsement between volunteer individuals and NGOs & Social Enterprises, making contribution to DID profile and social protocol;

3. Enable on-chain donation assignment using smart contract and multi-sign to increase the transparency; besides, Use token economics to assign a small part of donation to NGOs & volunteer individuals to encourage sustainability of volunteer behaviour;

4. Take advantage of ZKP to protect the privacy of people who get help, e.g. proofing the kid to be able to get donation but not revealing the detailed personal information;

5. We are actively following up the progress of Ethereum Attestation Service and Gitcoin Passport, hoping to integrate and make contributions.