Following the introduction of the discriminatory payment card for refugees, an initiative named “Nein zur Bezahlkarte Karlsruhe” (No to the Payment Card Karlsruhe) has also been established in Karlsruhe. Like similar groups in many other cities, they aim to take action against this unjust practice; in addition to public outreach, they are demonstrating solidarity through practical measures, specifically by organizing voucher exchange points. Further information about the initiative is available at https://nein-zur-bezahlkarte-karlsruhe.de/.

For this initiative, I developed their website as well as an inventory tool to facilitate the voucher exchange process.

Website

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The website is built using Astro and provides information about the initiative, contact options, and an overview of their activities. To enable easy content management by multiple contributors, Notion (notion.so) is utilized as a repurposed Content Management System (CMS). Additionally, visitors can view the locations of the voucher exchange points and check how many vouchers are currently available at each site. The current voucher inventory is maintained using the dedicated inventory tool and is automatically displayed on the website.

The website’s source code is publicly available on Codeberg:

It is hosted via Codeberg Pages and can be accessed at https://nein-zur-bezahlkarte-karlsruhe.de/.

In collaboration with the Freiburg-based initiative “Bezahlkarte Stoppen!” (Stop the Payment Card!), a fork of the website was also created for the Freiburg group. It is available at https://bezahlkarte-stoppen.de/.

Inventory Tool

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The inventory tool is designed to document and manage the voucher exchange process. It is built using Django and is hosted on https://uberspace.de/.

Instructions on how to use the tool can be found at https://nein-zur-bezahlkarte-karlsruhe.de/anleitung/.

The source code for the tool is publicly available on Codeberg: