Ihtiyac Haritasi / Needs Map

by Ihtiyac haritasi (TR- Ihtiyac Haritas)

Project Report | Dec 18, 2024
Needs Map Continues To Work For Social Good

By Edanur Numanoglu | Business Development and Project Assistant

Needs Map continues to grow, strengthen, and reach wider audiences every day with the support of both corporate and individual supporters from Turkey and around the world. As a volunteer-based solidarity platform, it meets needs through contactless deliveries without using warehouses or stores. With its user-friendly structure, Needs Map aims to create social benefit and strengthen community solidarity within the framework of a circular economy. The platform allows people in need to clearly share their needs, while supporters can quickly see and respond to these needs. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, Needs Map transparently collects, verifies, and displays needs and contributions on a map. This ensures that people in need and supporters can be matched quickly and accurately. Users can view needs in their surroundings on the map and take action to meet them.

Needs Map combines technology and social solidarity in a unique way. By encouraging a culture of online solidarity, it creates a trust-based environment where individuals can support one another. This way, the platform not only provides humanitarian aid but also works to solve broader social issues. It develops technology-driven solutions to fight poverty, inequality, and other social challenges, ensuring these solutions reach all parts of society. By promoting volunteerism and social responsibility, Needs Map helps create a fairer and more equal society.

Needs Map runs projects in areas such as education, health, culture, arts, sports, and basic needs to improve the quality of life in communities. These projects focus on ensuring equal access to rights and resources, especially for individuals facing inequality. By collaborating with national and international partners, the platform expands its impact and works toward sustainable development goals.

To expand its impact in Europe, Needs Map opened offices in Brussels in November 2022 and in the UK in 2023. These steps reflect its mission to lead global social innovation and its commitment to spreading social good.

As disasters and crises become more frequent, it is crucial to respond quickly and effectively. After the major earthquake in Kahramanmaras on February 6, 2023, Needs Map delivered aid rapidly to affected communities and supported recovery efforts through strong coordination. With years of experience and advanced technology, Needs Map continues to strengthen social solidarity by providing fast and effective solutions during crises. Needs Map does not just focus on disaster relief but also works to support local economic growth sustainably. While traditional humanitarian systems often overlook local economies, Needs Map strengthens them by collaborating with cooperatives, SMEs, and local entrepreneurs. By providing resources such as raw materials, technical equipment, training, and mentorship, it increases local production capacity and boosts regional economic activity. This approach not only meets needs after disasters but also helps reshape local economies and support long-term development.

Through all these projects, Needs Map aims to build a society based on solidarity, justice, and equality. Together, we work to provide equal opportunities, accelerate recovery, and move toward a fairer future for everyone. Thank you for being part of this journey and helping us make the world a better place.

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Aug 1, 2024
Needs Map Continues To Work For Social Good

By Edanur Numanoglu | Social Impact Assistant

With its corporate and individual volunteers and supporters from all over Turkey and dreams that reach out to the world, Needs Map continues to grow and develop every day. Needs Map is a volunteer-based solidarity platform that ensures needs are met by supporters through contactless delivery without the use of warehouses or stores. It operates as an effective, user-friendly platform that creates social good within the circular economy.

Needs Map aims to address significant national and global challenges such as poverty reduction and social inequality through transparent and efficient resource distribution. By actively and effectively using GIS technologies for real-time data visualization and analysis, Needs Map enhances the accuracy and effectiveness of humanitarian aid and disaster response efforts, setting new standards in the sector.

As social and economic challenges deepen, resulting in increased inequality of opportunity, Needs Map produces solutions for all underserved communities. To this end, it has implemented and continues to implement numerous projects in collaboration with various national and international stakeholders in areas such as basic needs, education, culture, arts, sports, and health.

In times of disasters and crises, which are becoming more frequent in Turkey and around the world, providing comprehensive and effective solutions to emerging needs is crucial for countries. Needs Map has gained extensive experience in effective coordination, assistance, and recovery efforts and has strengthened its ability to adapt its technological capabilities accordingly. It continues to operate actively in the earthquake-affected region, particularly following the Kahramanmaras Earthquake in Turkey on February 6, 2023.

In its efforts to provide solutions to social problems, Needs Map includes local economic actors in its activities to support and sustain local economic development, which is often neglected due to centralized humanitarian aid mechanisms.

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Mar 28, 2024
Needs Map continues to work for Social Good

By Edanur Numanoglu | Project Assistant

Needs Map brings together people in need with individuals, institutions, and organizations that want to support through its map-based technology and facilitates cooperation and solidarity in areas such as education, health, culture, and arts through confirmed spatial data technology and community-based verification function. In Turkey, where social cooperatives have only recently started to become widespread, Needs Map which is one of the exemplary organizations in this field, continues to work with its stakeholders to create a safe social impact.

Through Needs Map, you can filter the needs by location and type with advanced filtered features, and support the confirmed needs. Until today, more than 110,000 members, over 350 NGOs, more than 100 private sector organizations and hundreds of public institutions representatives have utilized Needs Map Platform, and more than 10 million needs items have been supported.

As a result of opportunity inequality emerging from social and economic hardships that deepening day by day, Needs Map produces solutions for all underserved communities. With this purpose, it has implemented and continues to implement numerous project with various stakeholders both nationally and internationally.

The need to provide comprehensive and efficient solutions to the needs arising during disaster and crisis times that are becoming more frequent both in Turkey and worldwide, has become an important necessity for countries. Needs Map has gained a lot of experience about to conduct effective coordination, assistance, and recovery works and has strengthened its ability to adapt its project and technological power to use it in this context.

The other field of work of Needs Map is local economic development which is ignored due to the centralized humanitarian assistance mechanisms. In order to provide a solution to this problem, which deepens especially in times of crisis, Needs Map considers including local economic actors in humanitarian aid activities.

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