Powering 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...
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- Feb 7
- 2 min
Getting Disaster Ready in Fiji
Field Ready often helps people after a disaster has already hit. But our efforts also focus on local development and disaster prevention....
- Jan 6
- 2 min
Our 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 21, 2021
- 2 min
Field 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, 2021
- 2 min
Shelter by Design Thinking
The problem of inadequate shelter has long frustrated those who live or work in refugee camps. Tents provide little protection from the...
- Aug 27, 2021
- 2 min
A 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, 2021
- 2 min
Surprise Soaps: Starting small, with a big impact
Sometimes small steps - taken by the smallest people - can make a huge difference. We're hoping that's exactly what happens with our...
- Jun 23, 2021
- 2 min
Redesigning for resilience
When earthquakes roll through cities and towns in the Middle East's mountainous regions, they damage the millions of older, unreinforced...
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Making it better
More than 600 people in rural Fiji are now enjoying improved sanitation thanks to our latrine installation campaign! Our team in Fiji...
- May 5, 2021
- 4 min
Open Know-Where launched
April’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, 2021
- 1 min
Voice of a Climate Champion
Devex, the global development community's media platform, spotlighted our very own Fiji Operations Manager Jean Matthias this week as...
- Mar 25, 2021
- 2 min
World Water Day 2021
While 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, 2021
- 3 min
Syria: 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, 2021
- 3 min
The positivity challenge
Recently 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, 2021
- 3 min
Moving forward with medical device repair in Syria
We began our medical device repair project in Syria last year with an eye on expanding it throughout 2020. The pandemic slowed our...
- Dec 24, 2020
- 3 min
Tropical Cyclone Yasa Response
Tropical Cyclone (TC) Yasa made landfall over Vanua Levu, Fiji on 17 December, 2020. With its Category 5 intensity, this was the...
- Jul 22, 2020
- 3 min
Ready for a healthcare rebuild in Syria
Nine years of conflict in Syria has created a humanitarian disaster, with millions of civilians displaced. But there is also another,...
- May 14, 2020
- 3 min
Helping to shield Chicago from COVID-19
When Jacquelyn Moore saw the devastation COVID-19 was causing in Chicago’s African American community, she put her problem-solving hat on...
- May 9, 2020
- 6 min
PPE Standards: Essential Clarifications
Current recommendations for COVID-19 response outline the need for everyone to wear protection when safe social distancing can't be...
- Apr 30, 2020
- 1 min
Beating COVID-19 in developing countries
We've been responding to the terrifying COVID-19 pandemic with efforts across the globe these past weeks, currently helping to produce...