Lily LoveLilyLove
14 min
for the ambulance to reach Lily. Nobody nearby knew.
Be someone who can be alerted
Understand why
Emergency
response
Introduction
The worst experience a human can have. 14 minutes for ambos to arrive. Untrained in CPR. Home. Nobody could hear us. Anybody would have sprinted to help. There would be a nurse within 500 metres, a neighbour trained in St Johns. Every person in Australia would have helped me in that moment if they were alerted.
Having been through this. The thought it could still happen to somebody, and that nothing is being done, is too much for me to bear.
Lily's mum
An alertable community
Help that is already close by
1Something happens
At home, in the park, in the car park. A child stops breathing. Someone calls 000.
2Nearby phones hear it
One press alerts the people close by who said yes to being alertable.
3A neighbour comes
The nurse down the street. The dad who did a first aid course. They choose to go.
4Help keeps coming
The ambulance arrives to someone already helping, and the family is not alone after.
Nearby people add to 000. They never replace it. Always call 000 first.
Omxus, the way we connect
Yours to hold
To be alerted, a stranger has to trust you a little and you have to trust them. We think that trust should belong to people, not a company.
So the future app is being designed so you hold your own identity, on your own phone. You choose when you are alertable, and you can stop at any time. Nothing about you is for sale.
The app is separate from this site and still being built. This site will never ask you to sign up, pay or download anything to read it.
One small thing today
Book a first aid course. Tell one neighbour you know CPR. Share Lily's story with someone who would sprint.