We are building Empathia, a decentralized platform that aims to register, promote, and recognize the value of volunteering worldwide.

How do we contribute to volunteering?
According to the 2022 UN volunteering report, 70% of volunteering is informal, making it difficult to gather accurate statistics. By creating a decentralized, privacy-preserving registry, we aim to provide better data for decision-making and policy planning related to volunteering.
We provide incentives to volunteers and organizations through our native token. Volunteers and organizations can earn Empathia tokens for registering and verifying volunteering experiences, and these tokens can be exchanged for goods and services provided by supporting organizations and enterprises. This incentivization mechanism encourages more people to participate in volunteering.

Despite covering all kinds of volunteering, tagged by UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), we are especially interested in climate-related volunteering experiences that align with Goal 13 (Climate Action) and other environmental and sustainability-related goals. Therefore, we are proactively reaching out to climate-related NGOs and volunteers to join Empathia. Furthermore, part of the funds received through this grant will be allocated for gas sponsoring relay and extra tokens for climate-related organizations and volunteers. We are committed to continuously researching and implementing better strategies to incentivize climate-related volunteering, thereby contributing to climate solutions through our project.