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title: "French Red Cross - Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane"
description: "During and after the COVID-19 crisis, the French Red Cross in French Guiana saw demand on its Food Assistance Platform (Plateforme Alimentaire) rise sharply…"
url: https://reliefapplications.org/projects/crf-plateforme-alimentaire-de-guyane-stock-and-distribution-management-application/
lang: en
updated: 2026-11-11
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# French Red Cross - Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane

During and after the COVID-19 crisis, the French Red Cross in French Guiana saw demand on its Food Assistance Platform (Plateforme Alimentaire) rise sharply. Relief Applications built a digital platform to manage and strengthen food-aid distribution to the most vulnerable across the territory.

- **Client**: French Red Cross
- **When**: Since Feb 2026
- **Team**: 2 people
- **Services**: [Info management & MEAL](https://reliefapplications.org/services/info-management/), [App development](https://reliefapplications.org/services/app-dev-and-maintenance/)
- **Technologies**: Python, Django, Bootstrap 5, WeasyPrint, Openpyxl, PostgreSQL
- **Industry**: Disaster Risk Reduction
- **SDGs**: 1. No poverty, 2. Zero hunger, 3. Good health and well-being
- **Client website**: [croix-rouge.fr](https://www.croix-rouge.fr/)

The Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane, run by the French Red Cross, supplies a network of local charity partners in Cayenne with food and hygiene products funded by multiple donors, including EU programmes. Managing this on Excel had reached its limits: no accounting valuation of stock, no clear visibility per partner or per funder, and manual statistics that were increasingly error-prone as volumes grew.

A generic warehouse management system had previously been deployed and rejected: its coded references and supply-chain abstractions did not match the reality of food-aid distribution. Rather than retrofit a generic tool, Relief Applications built a tailored Django application around the platform's actual workflow.

The application values stock at purchase price by funder and gives each partner and funder its own dashboard. It produces EU-compliant PDF donation receipts automatically, controls access by role, and exports to Excel in one click, so teams can account for every donation without rebuilding spreadsheets.

## The challenge

- Accounting stock valuation
- Multi-funder traceability
- EU-compliant donation receipts
- Recovery from a previously rejected tool
- Migrating off Excel without losing history

## What we did

- Tailored Django application
- Purchase-price valuation by funder
- Automated PDF donation receipts
- Partner & funder dashboards
- Role-based access & one-click Excel exports

> Nous sommes très satisfaits de notre collaboration avec RELIEF. Au-delà d'être très réactifs, ils savent adapter leurs solutions à nos besoins. Les outils créés ont apporté une véritable valeur ajoutée à notre structure en termes de gestion et de pilotage
>
> Noémie HANNA, Responsable financier Guyane - Croix Rouge française

![Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane, French Red Cross: screen 1](https://reliefapplications.org/images/portal/image/screen-crf-pfa-guyane1.png)

![Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane, French Red Cross: screen 2](https://reliefapplications.org/images/portal/image/screen-crf-pfa-guyane2.png)

![Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane, French Red Cross: screen 3](https://reliefapplications.org/images/portal/image/screen-crf-pfa-guyane3.png)

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