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May 9, 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...
Mar 24, 20225 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 4, 20222 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...
Feb 7, 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....
Jan 11, 20221 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 10, 20222 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 6, 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...
Dec 21, 20212 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 9, 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...
Nov 10, 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 4, 20211 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...
Oct 4, 20212 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...
Sep 29, 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 10, 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,...
Aug 27, 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...
Jul 2, 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...
Jun 23, 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 10, 20213 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...
May 20, 20211 min read
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...
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