ICT Fire & Rescue
Our innovation offers integrated emergency & disaster response services through a public-private sector partnership with:
• Local government: • Security companies: • Gated Communities and malls
Through this partnership, we run and operate our clients fire emergency and disaster response services by providing them with a fully integrated service that includes: equipped emergency response vehicles, (fire engines and ambulances) control room and dispatch center, equipment and tools to respond to all emergencies and trained personnel for a monthly fee.
As result we have managed to create 120 jobs for the youth by training them with industry-relevant skills and internationally recognized courses in fire fighting, EMT and Emergency Vehicle Operations Course Incident Command, Dispatch, HAZMART, ACLS and BLS in order to meet the clients needs responding to emergencies.
The success of the project has led to the economic growth of the communities and increased their safety, wellbeing and living standards.
Emergency responses to disaster in the 21st remains a challenge. Disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, leading to loss of life and property.
Many local government establishments don't even have basic firefighting equipment, leave alone the skills and expertise to respond to any emergency.
Our innovation solves critical emergency response problems by providing the right equipment, training, and personnel, creating employment for the youth.
We have a joint partnership with County Governments to run & operate their fire emergency response services by leasing to them fully equipped fire engines and ambulances, manned by skilled and qualified youths.
Our market survey showed that:
• Loss of life and destruction of property is frequent due to lack of emergency response services and failure to respond on time.
• Over 55% of county government and private companies have inadequate emergency response vehicles and equipment which are never maintained or serviced regularly.
• There is lack of trained skilled personnel in emergency and disaster response with no coordination and prioritization from the government on funding for disaster, due to the high cost of equipment
We will create an extra 120 jobs and directly impact 5500 people and over 12000 indirectly by 2022.
We have a partnership with:
• Local government:
• Security companies:
• Gated Communities and malls
Through this partnership, we run and operate our clients fire emergency and disaster response services by providing them with a fully integrated service that includes: equipped emergency response vehicles, (fire engines and ambulances) control room and dispatch center, equipment and tools to respond to all emergencies and trained personnel for a monthly fee.
As result we have created 120 jobs for the youth by training them with industry-relevant skills and internationally recognized courses in fire fighting, EMT and Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC), Incident Command, Dispatch, HAZMART, ACLS and BLS in order to meet the needs of our clients responding to emergencies.
The success of the project has led to the economic growth of the communities and increased their safety, wellbeing and living standards.
Our innovation solves this problem by:
Offering an integrated emergency and disaster response services
Run and operate our clients fire emergency and disaster response services
Training the youth and creating jobs for them leading to the economic growth of the communities and increased safety, wellbeing and living standards.
We have a purpose built training center for training in internationally recognized courses.
Kenya's major disasters are dominated by droughts, floods, fires, terrorism, collapsed buildings, and road accidents. Lack of government investment in integrated disaster and emergency response, has left Kenyans feeling like sitting ducks every time a disaster strikes, due to poor coordination, preparedness and even lack of specialised training for those who respond to emergencies.
Many incidents escalate to such an extent that they become major. Lack of integrated response services, preparedness, specialised training for those who respond to major incidents, poor coordination, lack of standard operational procedures and emergency operation plans have all been shown to expose victims to increased morbidity and mortality.
ICT Fire was established in response to the unmet needs in emergency response. This led to a partnership with County Governments & the Private Sector to run and operate their 24/7 emergency response services, manned by skilled and qualified youths, creating employment and addressing the skills shortage.
Kenya needs to create 1 million jobs annually to deal with this growing rate of unemployment, the private sector has a critical role to play. The good news is that Kenya is a promising place in which to do business. It has growing markets and opportunities.
ICT Fire & Rescue are now working in partnership with County Governments & the Private Sector to run and operate their emergency fire response services by leasing them fully equipped fire engines and ambulances, manned by skilled and qualified youths to create employment and address the skills shortage.
We offer integrated response services to:
- Local government: We run & operate their emergency response services on their behalf for a monthly fee.
- Security companies: We Lease fully equipped fire engines and ambulances for a monthly fee
- Gated Communities and Shopping malls: We Lease fully equipped fire engines and ambulances with personnel for a monthly fee.
We provide emergency response for community events. For government and private events like sports we provide a fully equipped fire engines and ambulances for a daily fee
We also offer:
- Sales and maintenance of emergency response equipment
- Training in internationally recognized courses like Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC) Dispatch/HAZMART, AcLS and BLS
- Job creation: We provide training for the youth, train them with industry-relevant skills in emergency response to meet the needs of our clients and create jobs for them and improve the economic growth of the communities and has increased safety, wellbeing and living standards rise.
- Provide equitable access to learning and training programs regardless of location, income, or connectivity throughout Latin America and the Caribbean
- Utilize data to better understand employer needs and better inform policy, resource allocation, and skills of the future
- Growth
We are an emergency response solving two critical problems: Creation of jobs by establishing an innovative business opportunity in emergency response.
Our innovation offers integrated emergency & disaster response services through a public-private sector partnership with:
• Local government: • Security companies: • Gated Communities and Shopping malls
Through this partnership, we run and operate our clients fire emergency and disaster response services by providing them with a fully integrated service that includes: equipped emergency response vehicles, (fire engines and ambulances) control room and dispatch center, equipment and tools to respond to all emergencies and trained personnel for a monthly fee.
As result we have managed to create 120 jobs for the youth by training them with industry-relevant skills and internationally recognized courses in fire fighting, EMT and Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC), Incident Command, Dispatch, HAZMART, ACLS and BLS in order to meet the needs of our clients responding to emergencies.
The success of the project has led to the economic growth of the communities and increased their safety, wellbeing and living standards.
We offer unique:
• Create jobs/employment for the youth to be able to respond and operate our response vehicles when we lease them out to clients.
We train the youth at our training center to be able to respond to a wide range of incidents, with industry-relevant skills in emergency response to meet the needs of our clients.
• Internationally recognized courses to meet the demand from our customers.
Kenya's major incidents are dominated by droughts, floods, fires, terrorism, collapsed buildings, and road accidents.
Many incidents escalate to such an extent that they become major. Lack of integrated response services, preparedness, specialised training for those who respond to major incidents, poor coordination, lack of standard operational procedures and emergency operation plans have all been shown to expose victims to increased morbidity and mortality.
Our project solves two critical problems: Creation of jobs and emergency response by establishing a joint effort between the charity and ICT College to train the youth with skills that will help run & operate their Disaster fire emergency response services on their behalf & create employment.
We are able to impact the communities by creating jobs for the youth leading to better income and economic growth wellbeing and improved living standards.
Our ability to meet the needs of our customers and community has been the key to growth in revenue and success on an ongoing basis.
To stay competitive we have made strong, trusting relationships with key suppliers, to negotiate better prices and payment terms.
• Build our private-public partnerships and with our suppliers and manufacturers. • Have better equipment to offer our services • Better timely response services • Better working relationship with suppliers and manufacturers
We are creating a new sustainable model of generating income leading to economic increased growth safety, wellbeing and living standards. This leads to:
- Disaster risk reduction
- Better public safety and emergency response
- Better public awareness and disaster response.
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In Kenya, every nine out of 10 unemployed persons are below the age of 35. In recognition of the pivotal role Kenyan youth play in the eradication of poverty; we are working on creating jobs by training youths as fire fighters and EMT (emergency medical technicians) and other industry-relevant skills to create employment and address the skills shortage in emergency response and recovery when disasters strike.
The project has directly created jobs for 120 youths Trained over 5000 students in different skills who have gone on to get jobs locally and internationally.
We have also trained over 1000 Nurses and Doctors in BLS/ACLS
We are investing in training programs that help promote job creation. These jobs are the main source of income for our workers. They jobs provide much more than economic benefits and give a meaning and purpose, and help them contribute to their families and communities.
As the demand for our services and for trained emergency response professionals grow in the coming years. All our workers will re-skill and get a 5% wage increase by 2022. We will train all our workers to have multiple skill to ensure they can undertake different roles within the organisation.
Once qualified they will become more skilled, more effective and efficient in performing their tasks, which may subsequently lead to higher productivity and company profits
We will create an extra 100-200 jobs for the youth. (Directly impact 10,000 people and over 1,000,000 indirectly) by year 2022 responding to emergencies and disasters
By 2022 we will have achieved the following :
• Fueled growth of jobs in disaster and emergency response sectors. In total we have created 100-200 jobs.
• increased demand for skilled emergency response workers in Kenya with a starting salary of 30,000ksh and higher.
We will create an extra 100-200 jobs for the youth. (Directly impact 10,000 people and over 5,000,000 indirectly) in the next 5 years responding to emergencies and disasters
We shall promote the government policy on creating a culture of prevention, preparedness and resilience at all levels through knowledge, innovation and training, while finding new and better ways to engage and retain our customers.
• Foster more public private partnership • Implement better policies • Have improved response coordination • Create a better economy • Better relationships with insurance companies. • Better safety standards in all working environments • We are an emergency response company that is about • High demand for our services.
we shall be able to grow our business income and create jobs for the youth and invest in tools, processes and best practices to manage disasters & respond to emergencies more effectively and timely and also:
• Scale and replicate the project • Increase income leading to economic growth wellbeing and living standards of the community • Reduced loss of life and destruction of property as a result of better emergency response. • We will grow the revenue by 20% per cent per year
Our strategy is to scale and increase revenue by adding more resources in the next 2-5 based on our future goals and targets.
- scaling and growing the business and ensure our processes are robust.
- Building a great team
- Having the right processes and staff
- Having good cash flow for operations.
The barriers that currently exist that prevent us from accomplishing these goals for the next year and for the next five years include:
Failure to address the barriers and risk to growth, such as lack of skills, lack of funding, weak cash flow: others include:
strategic risk – Not investing in technology or newer equipment and advanced training to deal with recurring emergency response and disasters.
Loosing markets to competitors and lack of compliance to regulatory bodies –complying to local and international legislation.
financial risk – Lack of finances and cash flow problems. leading to loss of partnership with local and international manufacturers, suppliers and high interest interest rates or interest rates rise on the business loans
Cancellation of contract and delayed payments from clients: this result in lack of funding to be able to impact the communities and create jobs creating jobs.
Cash flow for operation purposes in order to meet our ability to protect and meet the needs of our customers and community
operational risk –Risk to workers and employees when responding to emergencies and disasters.
We have a duty of care to protect our workers and staff whilst on duty, against accidental bodily injury, disablement or death.
We address the barriers and risk to growth, such as lack of skills, lack of funding, weak cash flow: others include:
strategic risk – Being competitive and offering affordable integrated services from training to response and maintenance and the create jobs for the youth compliance and regulatory risk –complying to local and international legislation.
financial risk – We establish partnership with local and international manufacturers, suppliers who have friendly payment terms to cushion our cash flow and avoid interest and avoid interest rate rise on the business loans
With funding we shall be able to impact the communities by creating jobs for the youth leading to better income and economic growth wellbeing and improved living standards.
Our ability to meet the needs of our customers and community has been the key to growth in revenue and success on an ongoing basis.
operational risk –We insure our property and equipment against breakdown and theft, and provide work Injury Benefits Insurance that covers employees whilst on duty, against accidental bodily injury, disablement or death.
The best way to address these goals and make an impact is by making our project, sustainable with a positive impact on the communities environment and on Profit.
The aim is to achieve long lasting change in the communities that we serve by ensuring that: We package our product and services and are able to replicate the same from one client to another. As the number of clients grows, so too do our products and services.
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The project has directly created jobs for 120 youths
Trained over 5000 students in different skills who have gone on to get jobs locally and internationally.
Betheul Aliwa (Operations Director)
20 years experience, arguably the best firefighter/EMT, ALS/ACLS trainer in Kenya. Degree holder, Civilian coordinator at the Humanitarian Peace Support School (HPSS), trainer for the United Nations Military and Police Peace Keeping Forces. Translates vision to reality.
Desmond Nganga (Managing Director)
15 years experience, Been studying and working in London to raise funds for the project. Postgraduate holder. Sets the vision for the company. Has both UK and Kenyan Citizenship. Does all the product sourcing and established international partnerships with manufacturers, suppliers and financial institutions.
Joseph Waihenya (Finance Director)
Over 15 years Experience. Degree Holder. Formerly at Equity Bank. Prepares budgets, balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports. Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures that make good business decisions
Danstun Mwangi (Marketing Manager)
!0 yrs in marketing passionate about our products and services. Handles all the customer inquiries to satisfy the needs of our clients.
Benjamin Mwangi (Training Director)
15 years in Emergency response training formerly at KCEMT/Redcross and St Johns. Always keen on understanding our customers, if the product or service is lacking in a specific area or underserving customers, he is well-equipped to put the best solution forward.
We an integrated emergency and disaster response services through a public-private sector partnership where we:
Run and operate our clients fire emergency and disaster response services by providing them with: fully equipped emergency response vehicles, (fire engines and ambulances) control room a dispatch center, equipment and tools to respond to all emergencies and trained personnel.
We train the youth and create jobs for them leading to the economic growth of the communities and increased safety, wellbeing and living standards.
We have a purpose built emergency response training center for training in internationally recognized courses.
To lease hire a fire engine we charge 680,000 KES Per month (we charge more depending on the risk involved and area to cover)
We train in ACLS/BLS to doctors and nurses. (Aghakhan and Nairobi Hospital) ksh 10,000 per person
We offer fire fighting and EMT courses charging from 80,000 per student per course
We offer disaster awareness fire and first aid programs to the community and schools for free.
This leads to better income and economic growth wellbeing and improved living standards.
Social Impact we are contributing to the community activities such as better response, health, education, awareness and minimize the impact of disasters.
Environmental Impact that is taking care of the environment which we operate in and those areas leading to reduced loss of property and life
Economic Impact – We measures the effect of our business activity on the economy and changes in economic growth associated changes in employment.
The best way to make an impact is by making our project, sustainable with a positive impact on the communities environment and on Profit.
The aim is to achieve long lasting change in the communities that we serve by ensuring that:
Our products and services and are scalable and can be replicated from one client to another. As the number of clients grows, so too do our products and services.
• To grow scale and replicate our project model and take it nationwide creating new partnership, leading to better emergency response , saving lives and property an job creation.
We will achieve sustainability by addressing the barriers and risk to growth, such as lack of skills, lack of funding, weak cash flow: others include:
strategic risk – Being competitive and offering affordable integrated services from training to response and maintenance and the create jobs for the youth compliance and regulatory risk –complying to local and international legislation.
financial risk – by establishing partnership with local and international manufacturers, suppliers who have friendly payment terms to cushion our cash flow and avoid interest and avoid interest rate rise on the business loans
With funding we shall be able to impact the communities by creating jobs for the youth leading to better income and economic growth wellbeing and improved living standards.
operational risk –We insure our property and equipment against breakdown and theft, and provide work Injury Benefits Insurance that covers employees whilst on duty, against accidental bodily injury, disablement or death.
We are very passionate about sustainability, scalability and replicability of our project. We have packaged our products and services with the aim replicating them nationwide creating new partnership, leading to better emergency response and job creation. We already have:
Funding from the challenge will help:
Scale and replicate the project, we have 5 county government on the waiting list are ready to signup, for our integrated service.
Continue improving economic growth of the communities, safety, wellbeing and living standards.
Better economy better health and education
Reducing losses from disaster and fires
Better training leading to more job creation for the youth
- Mentorship
- Capacity Building
- Funding
We will partner with:
American Heart Association for training certification
John Hopkins University for volunteers to share skills and knowledge and to train our staff
UK Fire Service for supply of EX UK response vehicles
UK NHS for supply of Ex UK ambulances
KCEMT for training of EMT
IFE Intitute of Fire Engineers UK for training certification
NITA Kenya For Training certification in kenya
Local and National govt of Kenya for provision of integrated services
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