There is a long-standing challenge within the humanitarian sector – the slow process of onboarding and managing staff and volunteers for rapid deployment during a crisis. Australian Red Cross led an effort to solve this by establishing a verifiable digital credentials...
Innovation Stories
Limitless wins 2022 Global Good Award – Monash Action Lab + IFRC Solferino Academy
Action Lab researchers from Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Solferino Academy have won Silver in the 2022 Global Good Awards for their...
“We trained 120 farmers from 15 different communities how to make organic fertilisers, and they are now training other members of their communities!”
A Limitless Impact Story from Nigeria I started out searching for a solution on how to help members of my local community overcome the hunger crises brought about by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. I wanted to help farmers with a more cost-effective way of...
“How can we create synergy between innovation, technology, public health, and building a better community?”
A Limitless impact story from Colombia We saw the Solferino Academy’s call for stories just at the time when we were thinking about what our new ways of working with the community would look like. We were analysing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and exploring...
“We could actually see the impact! Over 5,000 young people have joined our online learning platform!”
A Limitless impact story from Kenya Nobody tells you when to go and create impact in your community. Many times, you go out to create change because you have gone through the challenge or maybe, you have seen people experience the challenge first hand, and so it hits...
“Volunteer “Mental Health Activators” are already being trained to organize local mental health activities and distribute CareBoxes in their communities.”
A Limitless Impact Story from Thailand In 2019, 800 Thai youths took their own lives, and over 10,000 calls from youth were received by the Thai Red Cross mental health support hotline. Mental health problems intensified due to challenges caused by the COVID-19...