A Day in the Life: Faith James, Tanzania Rural Health ...
7:00 am – Getting Ready Faith lives in the outskirts of Mwanza with her mom and younger brother and sister. After getting ready for the day she makes the decision to take a mini-bus into [...]
A Day in the Life: Finias Joel, Responder of the ...
6:00 am – Wake up Finias lives about 20 minutes away from downtown Mwanza with his wife and son who is three years old. He eats a quick breakfast with his family before heading
NGO, rescuers, bodaboda in rapid first aid link
By Friday Simbaya, Iringa* Tanzania Rural Health Movement (THRM) in collaboration with the Fire and Rescue Force in Iringa, along with bodaboda operators have launched the Okoa Project, the [...]
Cisco Awards Trek Medics Grant to Build Do-It-Yourself 9-1-1 Communications ...
Norwalk, CT – February 5, 2019. Cisco Systems, Inc. has awarded a technology grant to Trek Medics International allowing the non-profit organization to release a new “disaster-friendly” version [...]
EMS in the Caribbean
By many accounts the world’s first formal emergency call number was implemented in Britain in 1937 after an angry reader wrote to the Times of London complaining that five deaths in a recent fire [...]
Trek Medics Launches Beacon Mobile App to Allow Communities to ...
Norwalk, CT – Trek Medics International, a nonprofit technology startup, has launched a new companion mobile app to their emergency dispatching platform, Beacon.