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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 20, 20211 min read

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....
May 5, 20214 min read


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...
Apr 22, 20211 min read


Reducing risk in Fiji
While the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, other illnesses still pose a dangerous challenge. And in the South Pacific,...
Apr 2, 20211 min read


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 25, 20212 min read

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...
Mar 18, 20213 min read


Breaking new ground in Baghdad
After much work and collaboration, our partner IoT Maker Space in Baghdad has opened! Along with the founding IoT Maker Space team...
Mar 11, 20212 min read


Waste For Warmth: keeping out the cold with plastic
It’s still winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and freezing in much of it. Yet more than 6 million displaced people are living in flimsy,...
Mar 4, 20213 min read

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...
Feb 20, 20213 min read


Building sanitation with a Prime foundation
As we help rural Fijian communities improve their sanitation, we often get assistance from government volunteers - members of the...
Feb 10, 20212 min read


Building On Success
When Erbil Makerspace opened in 2019, its aim was to help train Iraqis in digital 3D design and fabrication, help innovators expand on...
Feb 5, 20212 min read

After the storm: Reset, recover...and rebuild
Our team in Fiji has worked around the clock over the last month to help those affected by December's Tropical Cyclone Yasa - and has so...
Jan 28, 20213 min read


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...
Jan 15, 20213 min read


Our Humanitarian Of The Year
We give our Humanitarian of the Year Award – created by Field Ready’s governing board -– each year to an individual whose passion,...
Jan 3, 20212 min read

Moving Forward Into 2021
Happy New Year! Looking back on 2020 years from now, we will remember the heartbreak and hardships experienced by so many - few of us...
Dec 31, 20204 min read


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...
Dec 24, 20203 min read

Blasting into the future - from Iraq
As a 10-year-old girl in Iraq, Diana Alsindy watched her grandfather weld metal plates in a small, backyard machine shop behind their...
Dec 17, 20203 min read


Celebrations of sanitation
Every good thing should be celebrated. And in Fiji, two villages recently got festive to mark one of life's very basic - and critical -...
Dec 10, 20202 min read


Special delivery to Kadavu
More than 520 people on Kadavu island are enjoying the use of new, locally made latrines this month thanks to Field Ready. The latrines...
Nov 5, 20201 min read

Design competition winners make life easier with 3D
Great challenges can inspire great innovations. Even with the pandemic a constant threat over the last seven months, three Iraqi...
Oct 21, 20203 min read
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