IMPACT

Applying Technology for Social Change

Developing Technology for Good

The situation
In Southeast Asia alone, there exists communities lacking access to necessary resources such as medicine and vaccines. Challenging terrain and the lack of road infrastructure hinders transportation and delivery of healthcare and especially time-sensitive medicine to the local people.

Our aero-medical solution allows medicine ordered to be delivered within the hour, increasing health outcomes for communities! We help to improve immunisation rates in remote areas and drastically improve rates of survival for emergency incidents (postpartum hemorrhage, venomous bites).

Additionally, our commitment to training and hiring locals to be our drone operators, help to provide added economic and social benefits to the community.

Democratizing Technology

Sharing Knowledge!
Yonah is a huge believer in the Open-Source movement and the importance of sharing knowledge. This movement allows for open collaboration, and this very element of co-collaboration is integral in supporting efforts to solve the most pressing problems that we face today.

We regularly post our insights can be found here!

Giving Back

Value-adding to undergraduates' education
​Yonah cares about investing in the next generation and offering enriching experiences to engineering students. More than just a textbook, the founders of Yonah believe in the very transformative power of engineering and want to offer students a real opportunity to have a hand in engineer work with real-life impact. 

Through Yonah's Student Talent Management Programme, engineering students are equipped with the heart and knowledge to engineer for good. 

Core Tenets of Our Work

Yonah is committed to using our technology for good in 3 main ways.

Develop cutting-edge systems 

We are building a medical cargo drone infrastructure purposefully designed for solving critical logistics issues to improve healthcare access in Southeast Asia.​​​

Democratize
​technology ​

​Yonah is committed to making our systems open-source: we believe open-source benefits all humanity. Our technology will also be made available for clients to meet their needs.

Give ​back to engineering undergraduates

Yonah believes in the importance of nurturing the next generation of engineers to have both the skills and good character.
​​​Find out more here.

OUR FOUNDING STORY

Taking Flight

Yonah was founded in October 2016 off the back of a consulting trip to Papua New Guinea with Mission Aviation Fellowship. It was during this trip that our founders witness firsthand the problems associated with access in some of the most remote areas around. Cold-chain management was problematic and medical supplies could not go where they needed to go due to lack of roads as well as the sheer time it would take to traverse by foot.

Returning to Singapore, Yonah was founded to first employ autonomous drone technology to make a difference in these areas. We design cargo drone infrastructure for some of the most remote areas on this planet. 

Our systems are designed to require minimal infrastructure and limited manpower, to launch and recover, service, and provide necessary maintenance in the field.