Giving Tree – Drupal theming for charity website

This website was made for an amazing charity called Giving Tree – their aim is to bring bag of presents to many orphans or migrant children within Shanghai. The team is made of very hard working volunteers and this year (2010), they have managed to collect 15000 bags of presents (sponsored by companies in Shanghai) to give to 15000 students in various schools and orphanages in the suburbs of Shanghai.

In this project, I led the team in their web developments and customized a Drupal theme (Drupal as request from the charity) and helped the team which consisted of many coordinators and volunteers adopt the use of a private forum to help with their coordination / discussion work. I’m proud to say that many of these volunteers (who all have their day time jobs and are not ‘web-people’ at all) use this as a basis of communication.

If you are in Shanghai and looking for an amazing and bonafide charity that really has children’s best interest at heart, please take a look at www.givingtreechina.org ! Towards the autumn/winter months of each year, they need volunteers and if you are a company seeking CSR training whilst helping a worth cause – then look no further!