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How To Use the Off-season as an Opportunity To Offset Business Costs

WorkWave

The best companies understand how to leverage this extra time to plan for the rest of the year. Many companies choose to schedule employee training sessions during the off-season. They might host educational workshops, complimentary seminars, or other public events.

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A few months of assistance = a lifelong income

World Food Programme Logistics

Photo: WFP/Maksim Shubovich Dreams can happen But the dream became a reality when the World Food Programme (WFP) trained 50 women in Kashka-Suu village, including Jiidegul, on home-based dairy processing. During the training, Jiidegul learnt how to make cheese with supplies already available in her village. “I

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Alternative Bean Cultivation Boosts Smallholder Farmer Earnings in Rwanda

World Food Programme Logistics

Cooperatives receive support on good farming practices to enhance crop quality and quantity and how to reduce post-harvest losses. As a part of this process, WFP brought together different actors along the beans supply chain to assess which varieties cooperatives had been growing versus which varieties the buyers are most interested in.

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Acing the drone obstacle course

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‘Let’s Fly’ immersive pedagogy builds confidence along with skill in Ethiopia On a bright May morning, the Addis Ababa Golf Club looks like it is readying for a children’s birthday party with red flags and yellow cones arranged in circles, squares and lines. Balloons fly from yellow tape along a broom handle balanced on two chairs.

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Drones to the rescue as Cyclone Desmond storms Mozambique

World Food Programme Logistics

Training led by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Southern Africa region expand the options for emergency response Aerial assessment of Mozambique floods using drones, January 2019. These new skills are the result of multiple training opportunities led by WFP on how to fly, map, and coordinate with UAS.

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Manage Your Business or It Will Manage You

Women in Trucking

Skills must either be learned from others or learned the hard way. If you’re new to the owner operator world, I encourage you to take a class or hire a mentor to learn basic business skills. If you have been in the business for decades, I encourage you to grow in your advanced business skills.

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Back to a better school in Kyrgyzstan

World Food Programme Logistics

Culinary training As well as good equipment, the right measurements, techniques and cooking temperatures, successful school feeding requires meals to be prepared to the highest hygiene standards. That is why WFP includes in its school meals programme culinary training workshops for school chefs and kitchen workers.