Paws of Cyprus — donations with a public ledger
A volunteer animal-welfare network needed more than a Facebook page: a price on what each animal actually needs, card payments that work for locals and expats alike, and a public account of where the money went. Live at pawsofcyprus.org.
Rescue work in Cyprus runs on informal networks: a post in a group, a bank transfer, trust. Someone who wants to help cannot see what a particular animal actually needs, or what happened to the money afterwards, and volunteers spend months answering the same questions by direct message. The audience splits three ways — Greek-speaking Cypriots, English-speaking expats and a large Russian-speaking community — so one language was never going to be enough.
Every animal comes with costed help requests and a visible goal, so a donation goes to a named vet bill rather than into a general fund. Stripe takes the card payments, and a public balance page sets donations against withdrawals so anyone can check the arithmetic. The knowledge base covers what people actually search for at two in the morning: emergency vets by city, import rules, what to do with an animal you have just found. Volunteers write all of it in a separate admin panel, statistics are cached in Redis, and every page exists in English, Greek and Russian, chosen from the browser.
