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Marvin Zehr's avatar

The reporting/work you are doing is simply amazing. Thanks for informing us.

Climate Action Now's avatar

Thank you so much!!!

PipandJoe's avatar

Yes, many may have missed this news about the drones. I am a big fan of the work you do. I just do not see the reason for air travel when it adds so much CO2. I love that you compile climate news from all over the globe in one spot.

Patricia Perry's avatar

Wow!! This just such great reporting on smart, tech driven life saving work!!! Rwandans are brilliant !!!

Climate Action Now's avatar

Thank you so much!

Teresa JV's avatar

What an amazing story! Thank you for all your work!

Climate Action Now's avatar

Thank you for reading!

Susan Dieterlen's avatar

What a fantastic report on an amazing company! I'm sure that many Americans - like me - have not heard anything about Rwanda since the genocide in the 1990s, so it is also really encouraging to hear this update on how much progress and rebuilding has happened there.

David Zakus's avatar

Awesome story!!!

Karen Phillips's avatar

Wow, just wow! I'm greatly impressed that such a service is already developed and in use, especially in an African country that we Americans believe to be so backward. Bravo!

Robin F Pool's avatar

Thank you for bringing us there via your eyewitness reporting. I loved the videos to help us get a sense of the real-time activity and your excitement about it. This feels very useful and important. Thank you again!

T Allen's avatar

is so awesome that Rwanda has turned their country and economy around! I hope other African countries are paying attention, their is no reason they all can't be doing this! Great story!

Heather's avatar

This is absolutely brilliant, and completely amazing. My heart is seriously warmed! Such a better use for drones than either killing each other, or just delivering the latest Amazon doodad. And it's an absolutely genius system!

One follow-up question - how do they manage shipments of temperature dependent things? Do they have cold-packs they can send along? Seems like that might add unfortunate extra weight. Are the flights short enough it's not really an issue? Something else?

I really hope they're able to expand all over the continent, and then all over the world - there are so many places where roads aren't the greatest but straight-line distances aren't too long, especially if you aren't having to dodge a bunch of other air traffic or personal drones.

Heather's avatar

One additional follow-on question - how do the drones deliver their supplies when they reach their destination? Do all the delivery sites have a catcher and launcher to send the drones back, or do the drones somehow deliver their packages without actually landing?

Climate Action Now's avatar

They generally do drop their packages without landing, yes!

Linda Berd's avatar

Wow!!! I do believe I've never read such an uplifting, article about a real-life company meeting the specific, often immediate, health needs of patients IN THEIR HOMES or wherever, using drones. It's like calling a pharmacy with an urgent need, and they immediately send the drug requested to your home BY AIR...therefore amazingly quickly. What a wonderful, TRUE, story!