Sol Support

[Julian-Dumitrascu]

We support people when resources are scarce.

1. Households

Household members register with us when e.g. it's difficult to make ends meet, they lose their home, or they risk malnutrition.

1.1 Housing

We help homeless people earn their right to a home again.
A first step is that we match requests for lodging with offers to host homeless people.
We help both parties conclude agreements.

1.2 Food

It seems that 9 million people die of hunger and hunger-related diseases every year.
We take requests to improve anybody's eating.
We can send food to many places.

1.3 Healthcare

We take requests for help from people who have insufficient money to pay for urgent treatments.
We help choose the best caregivers, so people can avoid paying the highest prices on the market.
We find ways to pay these caregivers.

2. Teams

When a team designs a service and they persuade us it were valuable for certain groups of people, e.g. a community, but it were rather challenging to carry out their plan with their current resources, we think together with them about actions that would help them and the users of their service reap benefits sooner.
When they need natural resources and products, we try to negotiate better terms for using these (e.g. rent, barter, or borrow), or send them goods or money. When you want to lend or donate goods or money, we help you to build a dialogue with the people you support and to agree in writing on the terms under which you provide this support.

3. Communities

Groups of households can go through hard times, too, e.g. when an earthquake, a storm, a flood, or a fire damages their properties.
We help people e.g. to:

• communicate
  We help e.g. to connect back to a telecommunication network.
• coordinate
  Because the quality of communication can decrease under stress, we help people to avoid risks and to save resources.
• protect themselves, their goods, and their area, e.g. by leaving the area, and moving animals and things out of the affected area
• find lodging
• receive emergency supplies
  We help them to get an overview of the situation, to receive information about what can happen next, and to plan their actions. This plan shows what supplies are wanted and can increase the accuracy with which addresses are indicated.
• recover
  Beside getting their households back in order, people need to recover psychologically and to learn from what has happened.

We help people to recover and to do well.
When you want to join our efforts, you can suggest services, goods, and amounts of money which you would offer so that we can fill their requests.
We agree with supporters that we keep a share of their money in order to cover the expenses of our personnel.
We inform supporters about how we manage the resources they've made available.