In line with donate-ng’s goal to ensure no huge cause or life changing project should go unfunded, donate-ng – Nigeria’s “go-to” crowdfunding portal has once again teamed up with GTBank, to make crowdfunding in Nigeria possible with mobile Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD).
The concept of Crowdfunding in Nigeria is not strange and is it somewhat integral to us. From time to time, you will see young children growing up with either a card or paper given to them in school or church to fund raise for a cause. This concept also extends to days in the University during events such as rag days where funds are raised for worthy causes such as Orphanages, Motherless Children’s Homes and many others. With the advent of technology, crowdfunding for social causes can now be performed online on various crowdfunding platforms.
However, donate-ng a crowdfunding portal in Nigeria where people with causes and projects within Nigeria can raise funds for social causes, has changed the playing field for crowdfunding in Africa with the introduction of this USSD service. It is no longer news that some Africans still find it difficult to use their debit/credit cards to make payments online let alone donate to a cause. But this new service will empower people without internet connection or debit cards to donate to charitable causes by simply using their phone.
By leveraging on the technology provided by the GTBank’s *737# mobile banking solution, donate-ng is pleased to make crowdfunding in Nigeria possible on mobiles phones without the use of internet. The *737# mobile banking solution, is the secure, easy to use and convenient innovation that enables GTBank customers carry out day to day banking services on the go. By simply dialing the USSD short code *737 from their phones, GTBank customers are able to perform activities such as funds transfer, air time top-up and balance checking. Starting today, GTBank customers will be able to make donations to all projects/charitable causes listed on donate-ng as part of the *737# service.
According to Mr. Ayo Amusa, Co-founder of donate-ng, “donate-ng is on a mission to ease the burden charities and charitable projects face when trying to raise funds and will continue to leverage technology and partnerships like this to make this possible”. As previously covered, donate-ng has been quite successful with crowdfunding in Nigeria having successfully raised about N 4 million naira for different charities and individual campaigns on their platform within few months of operation.
This new offering is expected to save donors the hassles of going to queue-up at banks to lodge cash deposits for a charity and also open doors for donors with little or no knowledge of computing to participate in crowdfunding to help people with need.
All that is required is for donors to have an account with GTB, and register for the Bank 737 service.
To make a donation they simply dial *737*32*amount*31501# where Amount is the amount of money the donor wants to donate.
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