Pop-Up Learning uses software to adapt to children’s learning styles, meeting children where they are, while increasing reading and math levels at an accelerated rate.
Pop-Up Learning uses software to adapt to children’s learning styles, meeting children where they are, while increasing reading and math levels at an accelerated rate.

Focus Areas

The Airbel Impact Lab tests, designs, tests, and scales life-changing products and services to solve challenges across the IRC’s entire portfolio of work, but is focused on creating breakthrough solutions in four key priority areas: treating child malnutrition, delivering last-mile education, women-centered health programs to save lives, and building climate resilience.

Climate

Climate change affects the globe - but has the most severe impacts on people living in fragile settings affected by crisis. Airbel is designing and testing solutions to increase the climate resilience of people and communities living in areas most affected by the dual forces of climate change and conflict.

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Abuk, holding a sleepy Nyirou, in front of their flooded house, in Northern Bahr El Ghazal, South Sudan.
Abuk, holding a sleepy Nyirou, in front of their flooded house, in Northern Bahr El Ghazal, South Sudan.

Education

Airbel’s Education team is designing and testing tech-enhanced solutions to improve the learning outcomes for children impacted by crisis.

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Millions of children in humanitarian contexts can’t go to school, and even those that can miss critical milestones in math and reading. Violent conflict, natural disasters, and other crises prevent children attending a school from learning.
Millions of children in humanitarian contexts can’t go to school, and even those that can miss critical milestones in math and reading. Violent conflict, natural disasters, and other crises prevent children attending a school from learning.

Malnutrition

Airbel’s mission is to end child deaths from malnutrition by creating access to effective treatment for all 18 million malnourished children in humanitarian and fragile contexts.

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A child being examined at a medical site using MUAC tape by IRC staff member to assess malnutrition.
A child being examined at a medical site using MUAC tape by IRC staff member to assess malnutrition.

Women-Centered Health

Mothers and newborns around the world are dying at alarmingly high rates affected by crisis and conflict. Many of these deaths are preventable; Airbel is designing solutions to bring women’s healthcare services directly to homes and communities.

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More than half of all maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths occur in places responding to humanitarian crises. 
More than half of all maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths occur in places responding to humanitarian crises.