Continuing from our last blog on volunteer behaviour, in this piece we dive into the different paradigms of community volunteerism (detailed in our report Volunteering in disaster relief. These paradigms are a consequence of the largely positive local volunteer behaviour that we have observed. Irrespective of the circumstances and challenges…

On Jan 19th, 2022, we published our first report on volunteering during disaster relief. In the report we spoke about a number of aspects of volunteering from methods of engagement, social structures and different paradigms of volunteerism. However, what surprised us the most were the volunteer behaviours which we had…

Relief Today’s origins go back to November 2015, when Chennai faced unforeseen floods. At the time, Vijay and I had been trying to connect with our friends but had very limited success with the existing technologies. WhatsApp calls and texts only gave us limited and occasional updates about our friend’s…

We are Relief Today, a startup in the disaster management space. Our mission is to build technologies that help societies better endure climactic and humanitarian disasters — which have been on a constant rise in the last couple of decades because of human action. The disaster relief problem-scape is vast…