Communities on a human scale
A community brings together a country of origin and a city: Cameroonians in Brussels, Senegalese in Paris. Small enough to actually cross paths.
About
Leaving means losing the reflex to ask.
Compatri connects diasporas where they live: people from your country, in your city.
Who do you ask which school takes children mid-year? Where do you find smoked fish, a hairdresser who knows your hair, someone who filled in that residence form last year?
Those answers exist. They sit with people who have been through it, often less than three kilometres away, and nothing lets you cross paths with them.
That is exactly what Compatri is for: giving a neighbourhood back to those who left theirs behind.
What Compatri actually does
Meetups between members
National days, meals, afterworks: members organise their community's meetups. The exact address goes only to confirmed attendees.
Messaging without a number
Messages, voice notes, audio and video calls between verified members. You stay reachable without ever giving out your phone.
A directory of associations
Compatri lists the associations that keep diasporas alive, and hands them control as soon as they ask.
Our principles
Real people
Every member goes through identity verification. Scammers readily target diasporas; a network that verifies nobody becomes a hunting ground.
Your location is yours
We never publish where you actually live. Others see a deliberately offset point, and you can opt out of proximity search entirely.
The service lives on subscriptions
We sell neither your origins, your movements nor your messages. A network that monetises its members' belonging works against them.
The community arbitrates
Long-standing members report and decide. They know the codes, not a remote moderation team.
How Compatri keeps going
The model fits in one sentence: discovering your community and attending events stays free, while the Starter and Advanced plans fund the rest.
Compatri speaks French, Dutch, English, German and Spanish. You find it on the web, and also in the app for iPhone and Android.
Someone from home lives closer than you think.
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