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Delivering Relief Aid at a Moment’s Notice

Airfreight Logistics

Behind the scenes of the Aid & Relief sector, work is continuously underway to make sure when a crisis occurs, supplies and teams are ready. The primary objectives of humanitarian aid are to save lives, alleviate suffering, and to provide materials and assistance to people in need. Mr. Stuart Smith. Handling it All.

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How Djenabou’s life changed in a refugee camp in Cameroon

World Food Programme Logistics

Most of the refugees depend on humanitarian assistance for their basic needs including food. Cash empowers vulnerable people with the means and choice to meet their essential needs according to their household priorities “When we first heard of cash transfers, my family and I were very happy.

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Stuck on the wrong side of the world but still needing to deliver food to people in Ethiopia 5,000…

World Food Programme Logistics

I miss the face-to-face discussions and stand-up meetings with colleagues. and a printer of course. It’s easy to get back into a home routine, rediscover the food I missed, go on long hikes, and meet old friends and relatives. That physical contact is limiting?—?I Sunset by the lake in Pokhara.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. We also provide frameworks for effective interactions with others in courses such as purchasing, negotiation, professional selling, and team-based assignments. This gives students a chance to network.

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‘One step forward, two steps back’

World Food Programme Logistics

We wanted to fly in a restricted environment so all our humanitarian aid, resources and personnel could reach countries where borders were closed. Aid workers were stuck all around the world and we needed to get them to the places where they were needed most. What is the Logistics Cluster? we still can’t reach it by air.

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Cash as answer to hunger

World Food Programme Logistics

I can pay for my family’s healthcare and school fees as well as food, of course. “We Photo WFP/Jacques David Around 1,300km south of Bunia we meet Bahati Mitondo, a mother of four. “36 were killed in January.” She adds: “Receiving cash is the smartest thing to do to help us here.