Case Study · 001
Divine Life Damayan
A membership and mutual-aid platform that moved a paper-run organization online — now serving 1,200+ registered members.
01The problem
Divine Life Damayan Community Life Inc. is a mutual-aid organization serving lower-income families in Polomolok and Maasim, Sarangani Province. Members pool contributions to support each other through bereavement, hospitalization, and disasters — but everything ran on paper: registrations, contribution records, and claims were slow to process and hard to audit.
02What I built
A full membership platform that moves the whole operation online while staying simple enough for members who mostly browse on budget phones:
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Member registration & login
Lifetime membership with up to 4 designated beneficiaries per member.
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Over-the-counter payments
Staff record contributions and the system keeps a transparent, auditable transaction trail.
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Claims tracking
Bereavement, illness, and disaster-relief claims processed and traceable end-to-end.
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CMS-managed landing pages
Staff update programs, announcements, and requirements without touching code.
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Multi-language support
English, Tagalog, and Cebuano, matching how members actually speak.
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Advocate program
A separate registration flow for community advocates who recruit members.
03The result
Records that used to live in logbooks are now searchable in seconds. Built with PHP + MySQL and deployed on standard cPanel hosting, so the organization can afford to keep it running.
