SOS Children's Villages
The Icelandic branch of SOS Children’s Villages, known as SOS Barnaþorpin, has been operating in Iceland as an independent supporting association since 1992. The institution supports children without parental care, and those at risk of losing it, through innovative and effective partnerships with donors, communities, governments and other organizations.
Client
SOS Children’s Villages SOS Barnaþorpin
Sector
Charity / NGO Social services
Services
3D technology 360 Video
Technology
Google Cardboard
Unity Engine
Encourage people to take to charitable activity
The client asked us to develop a VR charity app, the main purpose of which was to redirect users to a subpage where donations can be made. Users were to be offered the option to go directly from the application to the client’s website, where they could choose their country and make a donation.
In the case of users living in Iceland, the application was to detect their location and display a phone number they could call, which would result in their user account being debited and a donation made in this form.
Dynamic response is everything, planning is nothing
Applications being designed in today’s dynamically developing world, where nobody knows what the situation will look like in a few years’ time or how life in difficult regions is going to change, must be flexible to the maximum possible extent.
Raising public awareness and sensitivity
Most importantly, such apps allows institutions and organizations to reach out to the general public with very important information about the situation in various parts of the world, as well as about the possible actions that a given institution/organization takes to actively counteract them. This is precisely the case with the app we developed for SOS Children’s Villages.
Applications such as this one, which at the same time are conscious actions aimed at building public awareness of difficult topics, fulfil many important functions, such as:
