The volunteerjourney

The set, so far

• First Steps

  You finished onboarding and made your first accepted contribution in any team — a report, an outreach message, a correction, a translation, or a published piece.

• Still Here

  You remained an active Unblock Syria volunteer for 90 consecutive days, meeting the organization's active-volunteer definition.

• Day One

  You joined Unblock Syria within the first 30 days after its public launch, as part of the first volunteer group.

• Day Zero

  You joined Unblock Syria during its founding stage before the public launch.

• First Contact

  You sent your first outreach message to a target company on behalf of Unblock Syria.

• First Response

  You received the first official written response from a company to an outreach request.

• Human Contact

  You reached a named person at a company — with a role and a direct channel — beyond automated support, who could review, act on, or escalate your request.

• Internal Ally

  You found an employee inside a target company who actively supported our unblocking request with at least one concrete action — an internal escalation, guidance, or sponsorship of the case.

• Carving in Stone

  You kept contacting the same company after previous attempts received no response — at least 5 logged follow-up attempts spanning at least 2 weeks, counted from your first logged unanswered attempt.

• On the Agenda

  You got a company to confirm — in writing or publicly — that it opened a formal review of its blocking decision, tied to a case you worked on.

• Surge

  You stepped up when urgent work needed to be done fast, delivering accepted contributions within the window declared.

• Unblocked

  You were an active member of the team handling an advocacy case, with at least one logged contribution, when access to the service was restored — fully or partially.

• On the Radar

  You reported 3 services that weren't tracked yet — new blocked services now on Unblock Syria's radar.

• Ground Truth

  You tested services from inside Syria and had 10 of your what-works reports accepted by the Testing team.

• Plan B

  You found an alternative to a blocked service, verified from inside Syria that it works — fully or with known limitations — and submitted your findings.

• Homegrown

  You found a Syrian-built service, verified its basic facts from inside Syria, and published it on Unblock Syria as an alternative to a blocked global service.

• Byline

  At least one story published by Unblock Syria — on the site or its official channels — carried your name as the credited author.

• Localization

  You had 3 accepted contributions — new translations, reviews, or rewrites that made Unblock Syria's content clearer and more natural in Arabic or Kurmanci.

• Red Pen

  You submitted 3 corrections to service details — a wrong link, name, or outdated detail — that were verified and applied to the service's record.

• Legal Ground

  You built the legal case for unblocking: you documented the exemption, licence, sanction carve-out, or regulation that the Legal team accepted and cited in a real request to a company.

• Green Light

  Your internal review gave Unblock Syria the green light: at least one publication or outgoing request passed your legal or compliance check before it went out.

• Plus One

  You referred a new volunteer who joined Unblock Syria, and became an active contributor.

• Signal Boost

  You shared Unblock Syria campaigns or reports through your personal network, driving at least 100 visits to our content through a tracked link — or a post you created reached an exceptionally large audience, documented.

• Bridge

  You made accepted contributions — logged in our team records — with at least two different teams.

• Open Door

  You mentored a new volunteer through their first accepted contribution, helping them understand the team's workflow and start contributing.

• Team Lead

  You led an Unblock Syria team and were responsible for coordinating its members.