Field Ready has been working with the Anthropocene Insitute to create "how to" videos: how to repair a solar panel and how to make a water filter. These instructable videos are intended to be used by a wide audience looking to make and repair items in low-resource settings. The videos feature instructions from Julia Jenjezwa, a member of Field Ready's response team, who originally repaired solar panels in the USVI on our hurricane response. We are eager to share these step by

The Global Disability Summit was held on July 23 in London and co-hosted by the Department for International Development (DFID), the International Disability Alliance and the Government of Kenya. The Global Disability Summit (GDS18) will raise global attention on a long-neglected area, mobilize new global and national commitments on disability inclusion and showcase good practice, innovation and evidence from across the world. The event brought together more than 700 delegat

Field Ready is a recent signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative. The UN Global Compact aims to mobilize a global movement of sustainable companies and to align strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals. The UN Global Compact’s multi-year strategy to drive business awareness and action in support of achi

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres stated, "Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is the unfinished business of our time, and the greatest human rights challenge in our world." In STEM related fields, women are still underrepresented and in the humanitarian sector there is still a prevalent gender gap in leadership positions. At Field Ready, we support gender equity today and always!​ In honor of this day, we are highlighting some of the extremely talen

In North Syria, nearly two million children under the age of five were in need of nutritional services in 2016. With the war still ongoing, children are at risk of long-term consequences of not having a nutritionally varied diet. In the city of Idlib, near the Field Ready workshop, there are many families living in camps or temporary housing with little access to arable land. In addition, water is scarce and must be pumped from underground at a high cost. Field Ready has been

In acute emergencies, children face a disproportionate risk of disease due to various factors perpetuated by poor water quality, lack of water and soap among many other reasons. October 15 marks Global Handwashing Day, this year’s theme being “our hands, our future”. The Global Handwashing Partnership States: Handwashing with soap is one of the most important public health interventions in the world. Every year, 1.4 million children do not live to celebrate their fifth birthd

While our aim is to transform the way humanitarian aid is delivered, we seek to improve people’s overall quality of life and provide livelihood opportunities. This is especially true for those trying to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of disaster - the long and often slow recovery and reconstruction process. A key aim of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) includes eradicating extreme poverty. Field Ready has the capacity to improve livelihoods for people living in