Skilled Volunteering: Taimaka

Taimaka is a nonprofit fighting malnutrition in children through highly cost effective treatments. It's only 4 years old, and has treated over 10,000 children at an estimated $1.6k to save a life. 

Problem

• Limited resources to audit existing product/ prioritize features
• Little updated user research on top problems experienced by doctors, healthcare workers, and community health workers

Solutions

• User interviews with doctors, nurses, and  community volunteers
• Spec for entire mobile flow for easier bug tracking and feature improvements
• Prioritized list of product improvements/ bug fixes
• Specs for improved vaccine tracking and twin flows

Results

• Onboarded 2 additional engineering volunteers
• Building vaccine tracking and twin rationing programs

Next steps

• Continue to build out high priority functionality for doctors and community healthworkers