Relief Applications

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, App development
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

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 Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane, French Red Cross: screen 2 Plateforme Alimentaire de Guyane, French Red Cross: screen 3

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