Skip to main content
Home

designing for a more
equitable world

MIT footer logo

Search

User account menu

  • calendar
  • visit
  • support

Main navigation

  • ABOUT
    • History
    • People
    • Where We Work
    • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
    • Get Involved
    • Impact
    • MIT Ecosystem
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Affiliated R&D
    • International Development Design Summits
    • Media Inquiries
  • ACADEMICS
    • Classes
    • Student Projects & Presentations
    • Student Fieldwork
    • UROP
    • D-Lab Workshop
    • D-Lab Alumni
    • Designers In Residence
  • RESEARCH
    • Biomass Fuels & Cookstoves
    • Energy
    • Evaporative Cooling for Vegetable Preservation
    • Lean Research
    • Local Innovation
    • MIT D-Lab | CITE
    • Past Research Projects & Programs
  • INNOVATION PRACTICE
    • Approach
    • Humanitarian Innovation
    • Inclusive Economies
    • Innovation Practice Past Projects
  • NEWS & BLOG
    • Blog
    • News
    • Video
  • RESOURCES
    • Publications
  • 20th ANNIVERSARY
    • 20th Anniversary Events
    • Alumni & Community

TwitterFacebookYoutubeLinkedIn

Okoa Project

 

 

Adi goes to Ghana: a summer travelogue

The Moving Health team was in Suame that week to source parts for the final prototype of the ambulance we were planning to manufacture this summer. The parts would be shipped to Tumu were the manufacturing would take place. Photo: ITTU Staf

Blog | Sep 13, 2022 | Aditya Mehrotra

MIT D-Lab
Adi goes to Ghana: a summer travelogue

MIT D-Lab Design Portfolio 2020

Ten Design Programs and Projects

Publication | Feb 27, 2020 | Nancy Adams, Amy Smith

MIT D-Lab Design Portfolio 2020

Improving Emergency Healthcare using Motorcycle Ambulances: Emily Young and The Okoa Project

Emily Young, MIT '15

Blog | Feb 23, 2021 | Selorm Tamakloe

Medium/Selorm Tamakloe Blog
Improving Emergency Healthcare using Motorcycle Ambulances: Emily Young and The Okoa Project

MIT D-Lab participates in National Design Week, accepts National Design Award

Attending the National Design Awards Gala on October 17 in support of D-Lab's win wereEmily Young '18, co-founder, Okoa Project; Senior Associate Dean and Director, Office of Experiential Learning Kate Trimble; Kristin Kagetsu '12, co-founder Saathi Pads; D-Lab Faculty Director for Academics Maria Yang; Raj Tahil '81; D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith; D-Lab Academic Program Manager Libby Hsu; Debbie Lin Teodorescu, founder SurgiBox; D-Lab Associate Director for Research Kendra Leith.

News | Oct 21, 2019 | Nancy Adams

MIT D-Lab
MIT D-Lab participates in National Design Week, accepts National Design Award

Okoa team builds 4th motorcycle ambulance prototype at D-Lab over the summer - while participating in MIT Delta V accelerator

Left to Right: Sade Nabahe, Emily Young, and Eva Boal of Okoa Project at the MIT Delta V Demo Day, 2018.

Blog | Oct 03, 2018 | Sade Nabahe, MIT 2017, COO The Okoa Project

Okoa team builds 4th motorcycle ambulance prototype at D-Lab over the summer - while participating in MIT Delta V accelerator

Emily Young '18: New Prototype of the Okoa Ambulance in Tanzania

Building the prototype at Twende with the help of Bernard Kiwia and Athumani.

Blog | Feb 28, 2017 | Emily Young '18

Emily Young '18: New Prototype of the Okoa Ambulance in Tanzania

D-Lab logo
designing for a more
equitable world

265 Massachusetts Avenue
MIT N51 3rd floor
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

ACCESSIBILITY

Main navigation

  • ABOUT
  • ACADEMICS
  • RESEARCH
  • INNOVATION PRACTICE
  • NEWS & BLOG
  • RESOURCES
  • 20th ANNIVERSARY

User account menu

  • calendar
  • visit
  • support

MIT logo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Office of the Vice Chancellor (OVC)
Office of Experiential Learning (OEL)
MIT D-Lab