Field Ready’s training and production of mobility aids in Jordan in partnership with the Al Hussein Society-Jordan Center (AHS) for Training and Inclusion and Un Ponte Per has just concluded. This project provided vocational training and involvement in generating activities for marginalized vulnerable individuals in the labor market, psychosocial disabilities. The overall aim of this project is to contribute to employment opportunities for these groups. There were 20 particip

This week, the participants in the Un Ponte Per and Al Hussein Society (AHS) program have been continuing to work on designing and making two specific parts. The first is a wheelchair cushion which has been in development for the past few weeks. After testing different fillings they moved forward with a foam based filling. The participants continued to develop the seat cushions but altered the initial design to include comfortable armrests and a back/headrest. The participant

Field Ready has been working with the NGO Un Ponte Per (UPP) and the Al Hussein Society (AHS) to create livelihood training for people with disabilities. The goal of the program is to create dignified and sustainable entrepreneurial and employment opportunities for the most vulnerable and marginalized people from both the local host and the Syrian refugee communities, addressing in particular people with motor and psycho-social disabilities. One of the ways we are doing this

Field Ready has a new livelihood program for people with disabilities in Jordan. This is done in partnership with the Italian NGO Un Ponte Per. Jordan is a particularly challenging country for people with disabilities. The infrastructure is rarely accessible, and the sidewalks are particularly high making it difficult for people to get around. Our program is to train people with disabilities to make mobility aids. Some of the items they will make include; ramps, removable des

Field Ready’s practices are aimed at sustainability and conscious of environmental impact. It is estimated that 91% of plastics are not recycled and by 2050 approximately 12 billion metric tons of plastic will fill landfills. One of the ways we are addressing this issue is to repurpose plastics to make useful items while creating livelihood opportunities. Outlined below are some of our current initiatives that are combatting the global plastics crisis all while responding to

Our colleague Georg Hoehne has been working in Jordan since the start of 2017. He started his journey to Jordan with his initiative called 'Innovation Aid'. Georg raised money for his work through crowd funding - an innovative form of expression from so many people who believe in what Georg does. He approached Field Ready and we teamed up. Georg and the Field Ready team have worked directly with Syrian refugees and Jordanian people in and around the refugee camps there. Toget

Field Ready has been working with Action Aid to empower a groups of Syrian refugee women. We taught them different up-cycling techniques to best serve their needs. We worked with around 40 women whom reside in Mafraq, in northern Jordan. Their ages range from 18 to over 60 years old. The project strives to illustrate that sustainable development involves the target community to become the change makers of their problems, using freely available recyclable resources. We hope to

Field Ready arrived at the host community of Zaatari Village to set up a classroom of solar bottles. The room was made from mud and dirt and we installed the bottles into the foundation of the walls. The team brought bottles and bleach to place bottle lights into the holes present in the roof top. Some holes at the roof tops were big and some were small, big holes were filled with 2.5 litres bottles and small holes were filled by 1.5 liter bottles. Before placing the bottles,

Living with a disability can be difficult anywhere but in some parts of the world, the challenges can be especially daunting. Things that most people can take for granted - such as access to jobs - may seem like an impossibility. In Jordan, for instance, the employment rate of people with disabilities is around 0.5% to 1%, which make the life of a person with disability very difficult. To address this concern, Field Ready has a new livelihood program for people with disabilit

Pests such as rats and mosquitoes cause big problems especially when you’re a refugee. Field Ready recently completed a housing assessment in Zaatari village in Jordan. One of the main problems identified were rats, which carry infectious diseases, trigger allergies and exposure to droppings can cause asthma in children. There are reports of children being bitten while they sleep, as shown illustrated in BBC World’s story “The refugee children bitten by rats” where Ahmed, a y

Jordan is a wonderful country. Its friendly and hospitable people have become hosts to many refugees including well over a million Syrians who now live in camps and host communities. With numerous organizations focusing on camps like the enormous Zaatari settlement (which hosts roughly 80,000 people just south of the Syrian border), Field Ready’s Georg Hoehne decided to direct a recent assessment on the host community of Zaatari village just outside of the camp. This was achi