Case Study: Fundación Don Bosco achieves better outreach to homeless children with Microsoft Corporation PowerApps

Chilean nonprofit aids children living on the streets of Santiago using Microsoft PowerApps

Fundación Don Bosco, a Chilean nonprofit serving children experiencing homelessness in Santiago, struggled to locate highly transient youth and coordinate timely aid. Using Microsoft PowerApps and related Microsoft tools, including Office 365 and Power BI, the team built the Registro Circuito de Calle app to replace manual notes and maps with real-time, geo-referenced information.

Microsoft Corporation helped Fundación Don Bosco implement the app so case workers could log locations, track movement patterns, and visualize outreach data. The result was faster information lookup—from 40 minutes to 20 seconds—more than 500 location observations, and a 10% increase in the number of children reached in just four months, with the model now being considered for nationwide use.

Fundación Don Bosco

Sergio Mercado

Chief Executive Officer