With the first Corona lockdown in Germany in 2020 we created the project Post mit Herz (which translates to mail with heart).
The idea is to create awareness and support for potentially lonely people living in various institutions.
These institutions can sign up on our website with their address, description, and some more details. The important information for us is the number of people living with them. On special occasions (for now Christmas and easter) people like you and me can sign up as well and decide on the number of postcards they want to write to lonely people. The system randomly distributes addresses to writers which they can see on their profiles. They then have to buy postcards, write some warm words, and send the card on their own.
Since 2020 we have been able to send almost 600k cards all over Germany. More than 150k people helped us achieve this number. The website generated almost 3.5 million pageviews from more than 1 million Unique visitors.
The project is written in PHP, CSS, and Javascript. It uses WordPress as a CMS and Mailgun as a mailing service. We use ethical analytics with plausible.
Visit our Github Org or check out the website at postmitherz.org