HumanitarianPeople.org is
The community platform for humanitarian people

We are people working for an international children charity in the online communication area. During our work we were looking for a platform where people can share ideas, discuss and post humanitarian issues. We searched weeks in Google but didn't find any service within the net. We only found lots of general communities.

So we decided to build our own community platform. Our idea was that we want to connect people beyond the topic of our charity, long term help for children in need. People with humanitarian interests, means for who is life the most precious good and are convinced that people's duty is to promote human welfare. What we didn't know if we should start already with different interest groups or let the community itself decide to make their own groups later on. Maybe it would be interesting to first let people interesting in children rights communicate together in one group with anti-globalisation people to broaden the views of both groups and let them understand each other.

We strongly believe that people can change our world by uniting themselves in various humanitarian topics. Together they can plan lobbying, work out solutions, create public interest for their humanitarian issues and take other actions.

Then we looked for software which enables people to connect, which is simple to handle and makes fun to communicate. This was a tough challenge in the wilderness of community software offered in the internet. Also as we also have to pay our bills for our families and we want to offer this service in our spare time we were restricted in terms of money. This is also the reason why we ask for a small monthly fee if you want to use the premium services in order we can keep these services.

We were and are very interested in how many people are around having similar humanitarian interests like us and are also longing for communication with like-minded people.