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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Norwalk, CT – Trek Medics International, a nonprofit technology startup, has launched a new companion mobile app to their emergency dispatching platform, Beacon.
The Disaster Podcast is a weekly audio production created through a partnership between Paragon Medical Education Group and MedicCast Productions, and Trek Medics has had the pleasure of [...]
After the storm always comes the calm and taking advantage of the calm after their response to Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria we took the chance to speak with Reynaldo Ortiz, Executive [...]
The purpose of this post is to share a few of the biggest and most basic lessons about how to prepare for a hurricane with community response networks before, during and after a hurricane strikes.
English
Spanish