OTFR // VITAL PULSE 2026

INITIALIZING SENSORS...
DIMENSION: FLUX

Displacement

117.3M displaced. Conflict intensity at 550+ events daily, driving extreme population shifts.

Feed: ACLED Conflict
"Spotlighted" Mitigation

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS): Providing "accompaniment" and education in 50+ countries where formal aid often can't reach.

JRS Action RefugePoint
DIMENSION: FUEL

Food & Supply

FAO Index: 125.1. Acute food insecurity affects 318M people as supply chain fractures persist.

Feed: FAO Index
"Spotlighted" Mitigation

Islamic Relief & The Hunger Project: Community-led resilience bypassing industrial metabolic bottlenecks.

Islamic Relief Hunger Project
DIMENSION: FORCE

Climate & Force

La Niña (68% chance). Thermodynamics are re-writing the rain maps with over $240B in annual losses.

Feed: NOAA Pulse
"Spotlighted" Mitigation

WRI & Rockefeller: Scaling climate-health solutions and open-source data for local adaptation.

WRI Data Rockefeller Fund

🔍 THE EDUCATOR’S INVESTIGATION HUB

Use this kit to teach students how to audit the "Truth" and find the helpers in any crisis.

1. Verify the "Rails"

Don't trust PR. Check independent auditors to see how much money actually reaches the field:

2. Find the "Unnamed"

Most resilience is local. Discuss how to find grassroots groups not listed on global sites:

  • Local Religious Nodes: Discuss churches, mosques, and temples as "last-mile" logistics hubs.
  • Mutual Aid: Use Mutual Aid Hub to find local neighbor-to-neighbor networks.
  • Community Foundations: Investigate who funds local improvement in your specific city.
Universal Synthesis for Educators: While this dashboard spotlights major institutional efforts, they represent only the visible "intelligence" of a much larger global immune system. The United Nations, religious organizations, and millions of unnamed grassroots groups are the primary engines of improvement. From a local church running a food pantry to a neighborhood collective organizing storm relief, these actors prove that the most robust "patches" are the ones built through human solidarity. We encourage students to see the world not as a collection of disasters, but as a map of mitigation opportunities where life and intelligence are always working to heal.