Since the end of 2018, NetHope and its network of global nonprofit members and tech partners have been deployed in Colombia, working to alleviate the huge crisis of people fleeing the increasing...
On March 14, Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique as a Category 3 storm, deemed by the United Nations as “one of the worst storm-related catastrophes ever to hit the southern...
UPDATE: 2018.10.05 As of today, the NetHope team is in Jakarta and have obtained more information from local teams active in the affected areas. While there are still issues with power, the mobile...
ANNIVERSARY OF LAST YEAR’S HURRICANE HEIGHTENS PREPAREDNESS FOR 2018 The effects of last year’s hurricanes are still reverberating throughout the Caribbean and Gulf Coast region. The roll call of the...
By Marena Brinkhurst, Community Team Program Manager, Mapbox, and John Crowley, Director of Information Management and Crisis Informatics, NetHope As humanitarian operations have become more complex,...
“Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.” – Max Mayfield, former Director of the National Hurricane Center By Frank Schott, Managing Director of New Program...
While refugees seek economic opportunities, most financial institutions, whether local microfinancing organizations or traditional banks, are unwilling to serve refugees because they are perceived as...
By Sybille Fleischmann, Project Lead, NetHope – Project Reconnect “I am an Iraqi refugee, in Germany for two years and seven months. I regularly joined the study group (using Chromebooks at the...
Ingolfur Haraldsson knew the look. He had seen similar expressions on the refugees streaming into Greece—they told of anguish, fear and uncertainty of what was to come. Haraldsson, a communication...
As we observe World Refugee Day today, NetHope’s mission comes into sharp focus: To improve the human condition. When NetHope considers the 65.6 million people around the world forcibly displaced...