My name is Kazem
and the Red Cross
helped me a lot when I wanted to find my family.
I was 13 years old when I started migrating to Sweden.
I didn't have any contact with my family at all.
I had nowhere to stay
and passed through six countries before arriving here.
In 2015, Sweden received
nearly 40,000 unaccompanied minors.
Many of them contacted us to reconnect to their families.
But waiting for an answer takes a long time.
Previously, we've been more dependent
on collecting data very manually.
But now this project has taken a new step.
We have initiated a new digital form of self-registration.
And from the very first contact,
we start to collect data about the missing families.
All this information is highly sensitive and confidential.
So, the solution built with ELCA
was based on privacy by design.
We chose the Microsoft platform
because of scalability and security.
And on top of it, the Power Apps portal for beneficiaries,
the mobile canvas app for the caseworkers,
and all the process is managed
with Microsoft 365 into the Swiss Cloud.
This solution is really helping
to reunify families.
I saw my mother for the first time after five years.
Every night, before bedtime, I put my head on her lap.
I am very happy, really happy indeed.
I feel that I'm actually living.
I'm not just surviving,
I’m living.