Recovery Hub helped two children come home. It needs maintainers.
Two parents used the open-source tool during international child-abduction cases that ended with their children home. About 20–25 parents use it in a typical month. The repository needs engineers who will maintain it.
Recovery Hub needs maintainers.
Recovery Hub is a free, open-source case-management tool for parents dealing with international child-abduction cases. Roughly 20–25 parents use it in a typical month.
The Hub helped two parents during cases that ended with their children home. The parents did the work; the Hub was one tool among many, not the sole cause of either outcome. I am not publishing any details about the families.
The small number of cases creates weak commercial incentives, even though the burden on each affected child and parent is enormous.
What Recovery Hub does
Parents can use it to:
- Turn case details into a prioritized action plan.
- Track tasks, contacts, expenses, calls, emails, documents, and events.
- Build and export a case chronology.
- Upload PDFs and images for AI-assisted text, date, and event extraction.
- Draft communications using case context.
- Use a voice guide to capture tasks and evidence.
- Create a public campaign page when public outreach is part of their strategy.
AI output is a draft. Parents still need to verify it with qualified professionals and authoritative sources.
How the data works
The Hub is local-first, not local-only. Core case data and uploaded files are stored in the browser by default. AI features send the information or documents a parent chooses to analyze to Gemini. Signing in syncs some structured records to Firebase. Campaign pages publish the information a parent chooses to make public. Usage analytics are enabled.
Those boundaries need clearer documentation, stronger tests, and a proper privacy and security review.
What needs maintaining
I am looking for engineers who can take responsibility for defined parts of the project:
- Browser storage, Firebase synchronization, backup, and restore.
- Privacy, security, and public-sharing boundaries.
- Testing, accessibility, and release discipline.
- Document processing, offline behavior, and frontend maintenance.
- Child-welfare workflow and resource review.
This is not a request to work on individual family cases. It is a request to maintain the software parents use to manage their own work.
Run the live application. Read the public GitHub repository. Clone it and use synthetic data. If you can own one part of it, open an issue and say what you can maintain.
Do not put case details, documents, or identifying information in a public GitHub issue.