Project Aim
In 2022 the projects of the IBM Volunteer Committee "Creating a better future together" aimed at helping the most vulnerable groups in society and focusing on key social issues such as: Optimising and popularising blood donation initiatives by creating a national registration platform, in partnership with NCTH; Support and prevention of violence against children by developing a website for UNICEF, as well as promoting the need of prevention against the problem of digital literacy and online safety by jointly organising a #GrowCyberSurvivor campaign with UNICEF; Personal care for underprivileged children through the Christmas Stars initiative; Support to the impacted regions in the Karlovo floods, and others.
Project Target Group
Children/youth victims of violence & their families. Children growing up without parental care, children with mental/physical disabilities. Society as a whole on the topic of youth violence prevention, and digital safety for kids. All volunteers from all over the country willing to participate in blood donation campaigns for NCTH. Impacted regions by the Karlovo region floods.
Project Duration
Development of a unified national registration platform for blood donation at NCTH - 4 months; Development of a website for UNICEF for the prevention and support of youth violence victims - 11 months; "Christmas Stars" initiative for underprivileged children - 3 months.
Project Activities
IBM Volunteers worked for months together with the NCTH to develop, test and deliver a unified national platform, with which everyone who wants to participate in blood donation campaigns, can do it quickly and conveniently. The activities also included training of the NCTH staff and long-term support. Another group of employees volunteered to develop a website for Unicef for the prevention and support of youth violence victims. Project activities included requirements analysis,development,testing,and delivery of a final product approved by UNICEF. For the 15th consecutive year,400 children from 19 organizations/homes for children from all over the country prepared their "Christmas stars", on which they wrote their innermost wish.Volunteers bought, packed with personally written cards, coordinated the transportation of the gifts, as well as the additional household and food needs of the organizations. The initiative involved precise coordination, communication and daily work, so that every single child could feel the warmth of personal care on Christmas Eve.
Project Results
The NCTH platform has been used by more than 8,000 blood donors in more than 200 actions. Optimized resources for campaign planning,limited gathering of people in epidemiological periods, improved planning of the required number of medical personnel. 400 children from 19 organizations/homes received the gift they wished for,as well as donated goods of daily use and funds. We continued the established partnership to support one of the most vulnerable groups of our society - disadvantaged children.