MS volunteer creates website that uses AI to help find missing people and animals in RS | Mato Grosso do Sul

The programmer from Mato Grosso do Sul, Caio Kaspary, brought together a group of volunteers from across the country to help in the search for missing people and animals in Rio Grande do Sul, as well as people in need of donations. In four days on air,ajudars.com has already received 3,030 statements and helped find around 500 victims.

With the help of Artificial Intelligence, victims can ask for help via WhatsApp, which filters and publishes reports on the platform. On the other side of the screen, people who want to help the homeless can apply to volunteer. See some of the reports from those who need help:

“I’m from Eldorado do Sul, the place we live was completely devastated, we lost everything. The children have special needs.”

“My parents were rescued by the army on Saturday, but since then the cats stayed and it was not possible to go back to get them, I don’t know how they are and I can’t get there.”

“We need any kind of help, I’m with my 10-year-old son and my mother, we lost everything in Canoas.”

“Elderly couple, they don’t want to leave the building, it was the building manager who asked for help. They need food. They are stranded.”

Agility: One of the volunteers, Thais Torres, explains that it was her husband, Caio Kaspary, who came up with the idea and programmed the website with the help of another programmer from Bahia, Pedro Elias.

The project started on Friday (3) night and was launched on Sunday (5). The objective is to unify people’s information to facilitate rescue operations, so the focus is on keeping the data up to date.

“The main thing was to publicize a WhatsApp contact where these people could send a message with the address, how many people there were, whether they had animals or not, and everything else. And this registration automatically goes to a website with a map, and then who was helping I could see”, detailed Thais, who is one of the faces behind the screens.

The programmers created a TAG system to make only reports that still need help available to the public.

Search filter also helps to find addresses and telephone numbers of people who are stranded, homeless or in need of donations.

Volunteers: Thais explained that he spent days trying to help people in Rio Grande do Sul and various WhatsApp groups, but the information was very “loose”. That’s when the idea of ​​creating a place to concentrate data and keep it updated came up.

The idea that came up between the couple gathered strength and this Thursday, there are around 40 active volunteers, in addition to another 200 people who helped put the website online.

Thais reinforces that the program was not created by any company, but by individuals, who dedicated themselves voluntarily to the project.