Empowering Yemenis with innovation and learning
Yemen is not working and the scale of suffering hunger and poverty is unprecedented.
Many children are being robbed of their futures. We need to raise the level of innovation and knowledge to find new ways to tackle problems in Yemen.
Thinking big and starting small, we convene people from the community and different fields of discipline to solve issues affecting people in our community and deliver real solutions. At the core of our approach is learning and problem-solving real issues that are vital to our communities.
ActionLabs represent our mechanism for connecting activities and outcomes. It's a social space that facilitates learning, knowledge sharing and innovation focused on social issues. We focus on methods for impacts and experimentation and prototyping of ideas and solutions for real issues. We prioritise a solution, design and test working implementation and document setup and managing video-based tutorials. See hydroponics action lab.
Conducting research and diagnosis to promote identification and understanding the problems we want to solve
Space for experimentation to learn test, reflect and apply new knowledge. This includes online space to promote discussion and information sharing as well as physical space to test and prototype ideas
Active broad participation by Yemenis and professionals and local and globally. An interdisciplinary involving a wide range of expertise and backgrounds combined with local knowledge
The final part of our actionlabs is deploying and scaling solutions working with partners and volunteers on the frontline.
Setting up a testlab demonstrating how hydroponics system can be setup in Yemen using locally source materials. All content in Arabic
Building a digital learning infrastructure optimised for Yemen. Reduces data cost by 80-100% using compression, curation and shared systems
Demonstrating how to build and manage methane digesters using from sanitation waste using locally sourced materials
Developing a microcience curriculum around hydroponics: chemistry, biology and physics linked to hydroponics design and management
Exploring how we can couple desalination technology with hydroponics to sustain agricultural production in communities
Exploring solutions to improve mental wellbeing in crisis contexts through
digital technologies
Join our Actionlabs in Greece and Turkey and share your knowledge and experience to design solutions. Our Actionlabs explore new ways of making progress on poverty issues in Yemen