Hello
My name is Renee at I am the Executive Director of PeaceGeeks. We are a non-profit organization that works to build the technology capacities of grassroots non-profit organizations working to promote peace, accountability and human rights in developing and conflict-affected areas. In the past 6 months, these are some of the groups we have worked with:
- Africa Youth for Peace and Development (Sierra Leone) - aim to support vulnerable / orphaned youth to access to education, shelter, food and skills so they can contribute meaningfully to rebuilding Sierra Leone and reduce the risk of renewed conflict
- Young Women Entrepreneurs Kenya (Kenya) - aims to support youth-headed households and young women personally affected by violence to get access to critical health services, civic and rights education and job skills to become self-sufficient
- The Nakuru Gender-Based Violence Network (Kenya) - works to provide coordinated support in the form of legal, phycho-social, shelter and health services to women affected by violence, and to build the capacities of other non-profits and organizations to effectively respond to gender violence
With all three orgs, we created websites for them using our newly launched Amani platform (more below on this), we registered their domains, created email addresses for them, got them set up on MailChimp, helped them to get trained on maintaining content
We are also working with groups in Nepal, the Philippines, Uganda and two international networks of grassroots organizations. This year, we will likely take on projects from Burundi, South Sudan, Liberia, in addition to new projects in Kenya and Uganda.
To do this, we have built an open source installation profile with Drupal (called Amani - not yet on drupal.org, but public in Git) to help rapidly deploy new websites for our partners. We are continuing to inventory existing free and open source tools that would be useful to our partners, as well as build new tools where needed.
We were the first charity and non-profit in Canada to accept BitCoin and - at least I think - MemoryCoin as well. We would love to get support from the MemoryCoin and BitCoin communities, and we wanted to let you know about us. Our website, also now has our MemoryCoin affiliation on the donate page at peacegeeks.org/donate
Our MC address is MVMySfqKF4AysMLhugjzxKKWWikwTZhwPz
Our BC address is 19NWYQitRdrn84hE5u29LbVv127ytaZpRf
Would be happy to tell you more about our work if you're interested.
Thanks for being awesome and supporting charities!