Plody Dukha: a website for volunteersfree, from the heart
A website for Plody Dukha, a non-profit from Dnipro. We built it free of charge, as volunteers: fundraisers with progress, news and reports, a volunteer form and fully editable content in Ukrainian and English.
The
challenge.
The organization needed a website that shows its real work, raises donations for an evacuation minibus and collects volunteer applications. There was no budget for development, and the site had to be run by the volunteers themselves, with no developer and no technical background.
Plody Dukha (Fruits of the Spirit) is a non-profit organization from Dnipro, Ukraine. Its volunteers run a shelter for internally displaced people, serve free hot meals every Tuesday to anyone in need, and respond to the sites of missile and drone strikes.
We built the website free of charge, as volunteers. It is our contribution to the work the organization does every day. You can see it here: plodydukha.org.
The main goal of the site is to show that the organization truly works and to give people a simple way to help. That is why it features fundraisers with progress bars and a donate button, news and spending reports, areas of work and a "Become a volunteer" form.
The organization runs the site on its own. Fundraisers, news, areas of work, team, partners and contacts are edited in the Payload CMS admin panel in Ukrainian and English, with no developer involved. Empty fields are simply not rendered, so the site looks finished even while content is still being added.
The result is a fast bilingual website where people can donate or join as a volunteer in a few clicks.
How we
worked.
From brief to launch — clear stages, each with a visible result.
Brief and structure
Gathered the facts about the organization and set the goals: donations, volunteers, reports. Designed a one-page structure with anchor navigation.
Admin panel
Set up Payload CMS collections: fundraisers, news, areas of work, team, partners, volunteer applications. All in two languages.
Development
Built the site with Next.js: responsive layout, accessibility, fast loading and SEO markup.
Launch
Deployed to Vercel with a PostgreSQL database and photo storage, connected the domain and handed the team a guide for editors.
What the
client got.
- Built the website free of charge, as volunteers
- 2.5 weeks from kickoff to launch
- Fundraisers with progress, dedicated pages and a donate button
- News and reports with category filters
- "Become a volunteer" form with requests landing in the admin panel
- Bilingual UA / EN
- Fully editable content via Payload CMS
- Responsive layout for phone, tablet and desktop
Technologies
used.
Everything running in production.
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