Donation camps, traced to evidence

Every rupee, traced to the people it reaches.

Saakshi links a donation to the fund, the batch, the expense and the verified delivery behind it. Volunteers record the field in an app that works offline. NGOs review only what looks uncertain. Donors trace their own money, all the way down.

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The problem

The work is real. The proof gets lost.

A single camp ends up in five places: a chat photo, a paper register, a spreadsheet row, a receipt in a drawer and a line in a monthly report. None of them is complete. None is linked to the money that paid for it. And nobody can cheaply confirm that it happened at all.

Today

One camp, scattered across five tools. Rebuilding the story takes weeks of chasing and cleaning.

Chat photos Paper register Spreadsheet row Receipt in a drawer Monthly report line

With Saakshi

One shared record. Every step is linked, so any rupee can be traced from the gift to the evidence.

DonationWho gave, and to which fund
CampPlace, window, items and budget, planned by HQ
Batch and expenseItems bought, with the receipt matched to the spend
DistributionThe delivery recorded in the field
Verified outcomeChecked evidence, and an honest cost per unit

Evidence is scattered

One camp, five systems. Reconciling them takes weeks of chasing, cleaning and merging, and it is never quite complete.

The trail breaks after the receipt

A donor pays and gets an automated receipt. The next contact is a newsletter. Nothing ties the gift to the activity it funded, so "what happened with my Rs 5,000?" means searching files by hand.

Pooled giving hides your share

"Rs 8 lakh spent, 300 students supported" tells a donor nothing about what their own Rs 5,000 produced. There is no agreed way to report one share of a pooled gift.

Photos of vulnerable people carry risk

Camp photos often circulate in open groups with no consent on record, which raises real dignity, privacy and legal concerns, especially for children.

How it works

Four steps, from your gift to verified proof.

Saakshi fits how camps already run. It adds the links that usually go missing.

1

Plan and give

HQ plans a camp with a place, a time window, items and a budget. Donors give from Rs 10 to 5 lakhs by UPI, card or netbanking, or join a sponsor circle with others.

RazorpaySponsor circles
2

Capture in the field

Volunteers record in an app that works offline, or report through a Telegram chat. GPS check-in, consent first, then photos, receipts and a recipient count. Everything syncs when signal returns.

Offline appTelegramBiometric sign-in
3

Read and check

An AI pass reads the receipts and photos and drafts one activity card. Rule checks flag anything that looks off. A person confirms it, and HQ reviews only the uncertain uploads.

AI-drafted cardConfidence scoreHuman review
4

Trace the money

The verified batch is matched to donations first in, first out. Donors see what their share bought, the delivery status, verified updates, and an honest cost per unit.

FIFO allocationCost per unit
Trace a rupee

Close the gap between "we spent it well" and "here is what your money did".

A Rs 5,000 gift to the Winter Relief fund is assigned to a batch, matched to a receipt, tied to a camp HQ planned, and shown with the deliveries that were verified. The donor can open the whole chain.

  • Assigned in arrival orderPooled gifts are matched first in, first out. The rule is stated once, not rechosen per report.
  • No donor mapped to a personCircles pool many donors into one verified outcome. Nobody is 1:1 with a beneficiary.
  • A stated cost per unitCost is total verified programme cost divided by verified outcomes, in plain language.
This is the part nobody else connects. Tools exist for each step. Saakshi keeps the links between them, so a donation can be followed to a verified activity and then to its evidence.

Where did my money go?

Verified
  1. Donationrecorded
    Rs 5,000 to the Winter Relief fund
  2. AllocationFIFO
    Assigned to Batch 104
    Oldest donations to the fund are spent first.
  3. Batchverified
    100 blankets
    Items bought, with the invoice on record.
  4. Distributionverified
    Delivered at the Ward 12 camp
    Consent recorded before photos, evidence checked.
  5. Your shareequivalent
    About Rs 200 per blanket, so about 25 blankets

Every stage is backed by a source document and its verification status. The figures are computed by the platform, never invented by a model.

Circle
24
co-funders of Batch 104
Cost per blanket
Rs 200
from verified programme cost
Built to be trusted

The AI reads the field. A person decides.

An AI pass turns a pile of photos and receipts into one structured record, then steps back. It never writes to a record on its own, and every correction stays in the history.

What the AI does

  • Reads a receipt and extracts vendor, date, items and total
  • Looks at a photo, describes it and counts the people and items
  • Drafts one activity card the volunteer can confirm or correct
  • Explains a donor's own data, with the figures computed by the backend

A person decides

  • The volunteer confirms every card
  • HQ reviews the low-confidence uploads, not all of them
  • HQ approves what a donor may see
  • Any change to a record needs approval, and is logged

Every upload is scored. These are the checks a flagged card can carry

Receipt unreadable Over budget Far from camp Outside the camp window Duplicate photo More people than items Photos unclear AI could not read
Verified payments GPS check-in Consent before photos Append-only audit log Duplicate invoice and price checks

Consent comes before capture, and a guardian consents for children. Anyone can decline photos and the camp is still verifiable. Donors never see a beneficiary's identity, and every action and correction is written to a log that cannot be quietly changed.

Who it's for

Three people, one shared record.

The volunteer who captures, the NGO that verifies, and the donor who gives. Saakshi connects all three to the same evidence.

Volunteers and field staff

  • Records a camp offline; a sync queue retries until the server confirms
  • Sign in once, then unlock with a fingerprint on the phone
  • Or report from a Telegram chat, no app needed

NGO HQ, finance and M&E

  • Plan camps with place, window, items and budget, then watch them live
  • Review only the uploads that look uncertain against the plan
  • Reconcile spend to activities, with CSV exports and audit-ready records

Donors and CSR managers

  • Trace a gift to the batch it helped fund, and the items it bought
  • Follow a sponsor circle, with verified updates and delivery status
  • See an honest cost per outcome, and ask an assistant about their own data

Give once. Watch it all the way.

Join the volunteers and NGOs turning relief into evidence, or start a donation and follow your rupee from the fund to the batch to the delivery it paid for.

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