Hospitality Helps - how Drupal has enabled Ukrainian refugees to find accommodation

The #HospitalityHelps initiative has one single goal: providing temporary hotel accommodation to Ukrainian residents, who are forced to leave their homes as a result of the war. The project was started by a handful of hospitality industry veterans, to facilitate the hotel industry in making rooms available for those seeking shelter having been displaced from Ukraine. They contacted HotelSwaps, who had built a platform on Drupal that enabled Hotels to trade rooms using 'HotelSwaps Coins'. The platform was cloned to create https://www.hospitalitysupport.org/ and within days was providing refugees with free accommodation. There are now over 600 hotels participating offer thousands of free rooms to refugees all across Europe. This session will showcase how we tailored the Drupal platform for this cause and overcame the challenges we faced.