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The Lighthouse — live donations & charity project management.

A humanitarian community app serving Nigeria since 2013 — enabling live donations, charity project tracking, and community support for children, women, seniors, and orphans across health, sanitation, and education.

2Platforms — Android & iOS
LiveReal-time donations
MultiCharity project tracking
2013Community founded
The Lighthouse — donation and charity app
The challenge

A humanitarian community needed a transparent, real-time platform for donations and project management.

The Lighthouse, a Nigerian humanitarian community founded in 2013, was managing charity initiatives manually — tracking donations, project progress, and beneficiary impact through disconnected spreadsheets and phone calls. Donors had no visibility into where their contributions were going or what impact they were making in real time.

The organisation needed a mobile-first platform that could handle live donations, display active charity projects, and give both donors and administrators a clear, trustworthy view of community impact — across health, sanitation, education, and food support for children, women, seniors, and orphans in Nigeria.

Our approach

A trust-first donation platform built for Android, iOS & web administration.

We built the mobile apps for both Android and iOS, with a focus on clarity and donor confidence. The donation flow was designed to be frictionless — donors can browse active charity projects, see real-time funding progress, and contribute in just a few taps with secure payment processing.

Each charity project has its own dedicated page showing goals, funding progress, impact metrics, and beneficiary stories — giving donors the transparency that builds long-term trust and repeat giving. The web administration portal, built on Laravel, allows the Lighthouse team to create and manage projects, post updates, track donation totals, and generate reports without any technical knowledge.

What we delivered

A complete charity platform connecting donors to impact in real time.

Android and iOS apps plus a full Laravel web admin — giving The Lighthouse everything it needs to run transparent, accountable charity campaigns.

2
Platforms live
Android and iOS apps with full feature parity — available to donors on both stores.
Live
Real-time donations
Donors see funding progress update in real time — building the trust that drives repeat giving.
Full
Admin portal
Laravel web portal for project creation, donation tracking, impact reporting, and community updates.

The app gave our donors something they never had before — a real-time window into the lives they're changing. It transformed how our community gives and how we report impact.

The Lighthouse Team · Nigeria
What we shipped

The full build list.

Platforms: Android app, iOS app, and a Laravel web administration portal.

Android and iOS mobile apps with full feature parity
Live donation flow with real-time funding progress per project
Charity project pages with goals, updates, beneficiary stories, and impact metrics
Secure payment integration for in-app donations
Donor profiles with giving history, receipts, and impact summaries
Push notifications for project milestones, new campaigns, and donation confirmations
Laravel web admin portal for project management, donation tracking, and impact reporting
Community news and updates feed — keeping donors engaged between campaigns
Tech stack
Android iOS Laravel (PHP) MySQL Secure Payments Push Notifications REST API

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