Humanitaria, the startup that has designed a cardboard bed for humanitarian emergencies that can be assembled in five seconds and only costs a tenth of the price

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• Up to 24,000 units are produced daily and transported by plane to the #emergency site
  
• It is 60 to 200 times faster: four people assemble 1,000 beds in 20 minutes, without tools
  
• The first few hundred units of the bed will be tested during the rescue operations planned by Creu Roja de Catalunya (Catalunya’s Red Cross organization) for this autumn

"NGOs need better tools and less money from taxpayers”. Under this leitmotiv, the Spanish startup #Humanitaria, driven by the #UNICEF Lab acceleration program, has designed the most basic and economical Humanitarian bed in the world: in cardboard, 100% sustainable and biodegradable, which ensures a Humanitarian response in the first 24 hours of an #emergency. It is between 60 and 200 times faster to assemble than any other, costs a tenth of the average price of the usual equipment and is manufactured at a rate of 24,000 units per day.

With it, #Humanitaria applies for the first time the concepts of specialization and super-efficiency to Humanitarian equipment, the daily tool of social sector organizations, and one of the biggest expenses that every NGO faces annually, exceeding 40% of their annual budget. In fact, the beds used by NGOs all over the world are camping beds. With an average price between 100 and 200€, they take minutes to assemble (5 to 20 minutes) and are not very well prepared for transport in large quantities.

The #Humanitaria bed facilitates Humanitarian response in the first 24 hours of an #emergency, the threshold that makes the difference between the success or failure of an operation. And it does so in a safe and resistant way, as it can support up to 350 kilograms of weight, well above the 150 kilograms that support the usual models used by NGOs.

Further information in the press release to download