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Producing PPE to keep Bangladesh safe
While most developed countries have cut back or even removed COVID-19 restrictions, the pandemic and other diseases are still very much a...
Jun 29, 20223 min read


Building a future and keeping it clean in Kakuma
Finding ways to survive as a refugee is always a challenge - and even more difficult during a pandemic. But our "Protecting The...
May 9, 20223 min read


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...
Mar 24, 20225 min read


Welcoming A New Makerspace in Sulimaniyah
The Field Ready family of makerspaces has grown again! Last month we welcomed Suli Innovation House in Sulimaniyah, Iraq, to our group of...
Mar 4, 20222 min read


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....
Feb 7, 20222 min read


Disrupting The Cold: Waste For Warmth
In Syria, millions of people live in more than 1,500 camps for displaced people. The shelters they live in are flimsy tents with little...
Jan 11, 20221 min read

Getting Ready To Launch
You might have seen projects we hosted last year in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq. An exhibit of the groundbreaking "Nobody's Listening" virtual...
Jan 10, 20222 min read


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...
Jan 6, 20222 min read


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...
Dec 21, 20212 min read


Field Ready wins international award for Surprise Soaps
Helping kids practice good hand hygiene has won us some global recognition. Field Ready won a 2020 Honey Bee Network Creativity and...
Dec 9, 20212 min read


Working together to keep it clean - 12,000 times
Our Iraq makerspace partners broke new virtual ground recently; in a new collaboration, they produced 12,000 plastic toys for a large...
Nov 10, 20212 min read


A look at the future of humanitarianism
On a recent episode of the "Trumanitarian" podcast, host Lars Peter Nissen spoke with our Executive Director Eric James about the...
Nov 4, 20211 min read


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...
Oct 4, 20212 min read


Training for success
Learning a new skill can be intimidating. But for 28 women in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp in September, learning to make healthcare items...
Sep 29, 20212 min read

Delivering Dignity
Making critical items when and where people need them is what Field Ready does. People will always need medical and other devices,...
Sep 10, 20212 min read


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...
Aug 27, 20212 min read

Making a clean start
If you and your family have to flee your home, your first priorities are usually safety, water, food and shelter. But once those needs...
Aug 27, 20212 min read


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...
Jul 2, 20212 min read


Redesigning for resilience
When earthquakes roll through cities and towns in the Middle East's mountainous regions, they damage the millions of older, unreinforced...
Jun 23, 20212 min read


Working Together to Protect the Frontline
Although some Western countries are emerging from quarantine, the pandemic rages on in much of the rest of the world where vaccines and...
Jun 10, 20213 min read
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