As a small non-profit organisation, Sunsar Maya’s staff runs thin in operations but are still held to administrative responsibilities, such as reporting to their funders. “This time last year, when I was doing our annual report and looking from spreadsheet to spreadsheet, trying to put together numbers, I wanted to pull my hair out,” shares Jehan Seirafi, Executive Director and co-founder.

“We have all these different aspects of the program—the medical and physical, the emotional, and the academic,” she explained. “It started to become really daunting- how do we measure the kids’ progress over time? how do we measure it as a whole group? how do we measure it by age and classes? how do we identify individual kids’ needs and see where they’re falling behind?”

The amount of data for each child continued to mount and the team needed to tie it all together, yet the traditional database lacked the customisability that Kintone offered.

“Our data is so different,” Jehan said. “You’re talking about emotional growth versus health records. It’s so different that a traditional database just doesn’t work for us.” Jehan and her team turned to Kintone after frustrating experiences with Excel spreadsheets.

Now, not only is the data more manageable and customisable within the Kintone database management platform, but Jehan is transforming the data into visuals and graphs to place into annual reports for showcasing to donors.

The organisation is constantly striving to uphold their mission in providing children with the best services available. “To find something like Kintone that allows us to see our progress, and identify needs in such a robust way without the cost of some of these crazy installations has been incredible for our organisation to be able to do that.”