Yamba.
A crowdfunding platform built for African realities — raise money for medical bills, school fees and emergencies through mobile money and cards.
When a medical bill or school fee lands unexpectedly, people across Africa turn to scattered WhatsApp groups and cash collections to raise funds — with no shared place to tell the story, track progress or contribute easily by mobile money.
We built Yamba, a crowdfunding platform tailored to the African context. People create campaigns for medical, education and emergency needs, supporters contribute by mobile money or card, and each campaign gets a rich page with goal tracking, organizer profile and category discovery.
From problem to launch, step by step.
Scoping
Mapped how communities currently raise emergency funds, and the friction in story-telling, trust and contribution.
Platform
Built the campaign engine with Next.js server components and type-safe Supabase auth and data.
Discovery
Added category browsing, search and trending campaigns with goal, amount-raised and donor metadata.
Growth & SEO
Shipped full SEO infrastructure — sitemaps, OpenGraph images and JSON-LD structured data — so campaigns spread.
The core features.
Yamba gives African communities a purpose-built place to rally support for life’s urgent needs — turning fragmented collections into clear, shareable campaigns.