Why Beto?

In Germany, this year’s number of refugees ist estimated to rise up to 5 million people. We discovered a lack of a platform where refugee relief can be coordinated, bringing together volunteers with those in need of help – without restricting help to only one topic or one region. So, we decided to bring such a platform into being and have been working ever since to create an app that will coordinate refugee relief in all of Germany, in order to bring refugees, volunteers and organisations together.

How does Beto work?

People who offer to help can choose how they want to contribute from a variety of categories. Refugees can choose from among the same range of options. If what they are in need of is not amongst the categories, there is an option to send an individual request for help. Organisations can use the app to draw the attention the attention of volunteers and refugees to their events - for both parties to attend them or to contribute to them. The app’s language automatically adapts to the language set on the smartphone. To assure spontaneous communication, the app contains a chat option. Automatic translation eliminates language barriers. The app's design is simple and very easy to use.

What makes Beto unique?

We interconnect refugees, volunteers, and organisations in a direct and effective way. This triangular structure is unique and makes it possible to exactly match refugees’ individual needs with volunteers’ offers. Volunteers and refugees can both determine how they want to help and what kind of help it is that they require respectively. The app is designed to tackle the problem of volunteers surplus to requirements, waste of time and organisational capacities and badly structured offers for refugees.