HELP-MEET-SHINE-INITIATIVE/Hmsi-ngo-web

Official web platform for Help Meet Shine Initiative (HMSI) — empowering communities, facilitating humanitarian aid, and driving sustainable outreach across Nigeria. # Help Meet Shine Initiative (HMSI) Web Platform The official web platform for **Help Meet Shine Initiative (HMSI)**, a Nigeria-rooted humanitarian NGO working with communities in Nigeria and across Africa. The platform helps people request support, discover verified fundraising causes, donate securely, volunteer, apply for worker opportunities, read field stories, and follow HMSI programmes. The repository is distributed under the custom **HMSI NGO Non-Commercial License** in `LICENSE`. > **Canonical website:** hmsi.org.ng > > **Repository:** HELP-MEET-SHINE-INITIATIVE/Hmsi-ngo-web ## Contents - Platform overview - Public experience - Authenticated workspaces - Administration - Technology - Local development - Environment variables - Supabase setup and migrations - Payments and donations - Images and media - Homepage publishing and rotation - GitHub and deployment - Routes and API surface - Security and privacy - Troubleshooting - License - References ## Platform overview HMSI is a Next.js App Router application with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS. It is deployed on Vercel and uses Supabase PostgreSQL for structured data and Supabase Storage for uploaded images. Next.js provides the application framework and routing model used by the public pages, dashboards, server-rendered metadata, and API route handlers [1]. | Area | Capability | |---|---| | Public support | Get Help requests, fundraiser requests, verified causes, donations, contact, and WhatsApp contact access | | Fundraising | Fundraiser creation and approval, organisation-wide campaigns, programme campaigns, Community Support category, live donor counts, anonymous donations, Paystack checkout, payment links, and social promotion | | Stories and news | Featured field stories, live approved-story archive, newsroom articles, approval workflows, full detail pages, social previews, and homepage flashes | | Participation | Volunteer applications, worker applications, opportunity listings, appl …