Mar 245 minPowering up after Super Typhoon Rai/Odette When an enormous storm has knocked out power and your phone is out of juice, how do you reestablish communication? How do you power your...
Feb 72 minGetting Disaster Ready in FijiField Ready often helps people after a disaster has already hit. But our efforts also focus on local development and disaster prevention....
Jan 62 minOur Humanitarian Of The Year Field Ready has named Ravin Rizgar its Humanitarian of the Year. Rizgar, Field Ready’s Iraq program lead, is being recognized for her...
Dec 22, 20212 minField Ready Responds to Typhoon Rai in the Philippines On December 16th, a deadly typhoon slammed into the Philippines. Super Typhoon Rai, or Odette as it’s called locally, first made landfall...
Oct 4, 20212 minShelter by Design ThinkingThe problem of inadequate shelter has long frustrated those who live or work in refugee camps. Tents provide little protection from the...
Aug 27, 20212 minA Virtual Experience Often, awareness leads to change. And for hundreds of thousands of Yazidi people, a new virtual reality exhibit is the key to bringing...
Jul 2, 20212 minSurprise Soaps: Starting small, with a big impactSometimes small steps - taken by the smallest people - can make a huge difference. We're hoping that's exactly what happens with our...
Jun 23, 20212 minRedesigning for resilienceWhen earthquakes roll through cities and towns in the Middle East's mountainous regions, they damage the millions of older, unreinforced...
May 20, 20211 minMaking it betterMore than 600 people in rural Fiji are now enjoying improved sanitation thanks to our latrine installation campaign! Our team in Fiji...
May 5, 20214 minOpen Know-Where launchedApril’s end bought the unveiling of a new model that can help people find what they need where they’re looking for it - Open Know-Where....
Apr 22, 20211 minVoice of a Climate ChampionDevex, the global development community's media platform, spotlighted our very own Fiji Operations Manager Jean Matthias this week as...
Mar 25, 20212 minWorld Water Day 2021While Field Ready team members all over the globe marked World Water Day this week, our Fiji team might have made the biggest splash. The...
Mar 18, 20213 minSyria: A heartbreaking milestone, but recovery continues This week marks 10 years of conflict in Syria, which has created an unprecedented humanitarian disaster leaving millions of civilians...
Feb 20, 20213 minThe positivity challengeRecently at Field Ready we’ve had the pleasure of welcoming new team members and having some great talks with staff who’ve been around a...
Jan 15, 20213 minMoving forward with medical device repair in SyriaWe began our medical device repair project in Syria last year with an eye on expanding it throughout 2020. The pandemic slowed our...
Dec 24, 20203 minTropical Cyclone Yasa ResponseTropical Cyclone (TC) Yasa made landfall over Vanua Levu, Fiji on 17 December, 2020. With its Category 5 intensity, this was the...
Jul 22, 20203 minReady for a healthcare rebuild in SyriaNine years of conflict in Syria has created a humanitarian disaster, with millions of civilians displaced. But there is also another,...
May 14, 20203 minHelping to shield Chicago from COVID-19When Jacquelyn Moore saw the devastation COVID-19 was causing in Chicago’s African American community, she put her problem-solving hat on...
May 9, 20206 minPPE Standards: Essential Clarifications Current recommendations for COVID-19 response outline the need for everyone to wear protection when safe social distancing can't be...
May 1, 20201 minBeating COVID-19 in developing countriesWe've been responding to the terrifying COVID-19 pandemic with efforts across the globe these past weeks, currently helping to produce...