Our deployment in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda drew to a close on April 14th this year. With an estimated 163 days this was Disaster Tech Lab’s longest deployment to date. We’ve now completed our After Action Report. Following are…
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Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda After action report.
Posted in News Tagged with: arapal, bantayan, cebu, communication, disaster tech lab, emergency, haiyan, medical, philippines, wifi, yolanda
Sea Rescue
We just received a report from our team in Bantayan who were involved in a sea rescue today: This morning while we were waiting to begin our training for BVERT volunteers we received an emergency call that the persons ferry…
Posted in News Tagged with: bantayan, bvert, cebu, disaster tech lab, ferry, medical, rescue, san remigio, santa fe
December 21st Philippines update: Bantayan.
The last 9 days have seen our work in Cebu has seen a lot of progress. On December the 13th Sean arrived from Dublin together with a big bag of medical supplies. Sean’s primary task was to carry out a…
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Philippines progress update.
Progress has been made but there is much more to do! Yesterday our Swedish volunteer Rickard departed for home and handed over the tech work to Eric who had arrived from the US the day before. Yesterday also saw Sean,…
Posted in Sitrep Tagged with: aid, arapal, bantayan, bogo, cebu, communication, disaster, disastertech, haiyan, philippines, wifi, yolanda
Update on Philippines deployment.
Following is an update on Disaster Tech Labs current deployment to the island of Cebu in the Philippines; As of today we have our first people on the ground in Cebu. Our advance team landed there earlier today. The team…
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