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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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Logistics industry delivers HGV simulator to Zambia

Logistics Business Magazine

Four big names from the transport and logistics sector have come together to supply an HGV driver training simulator for the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in Zambia, which Transaid has partnered with since 2008 to help meet the country’s growing demand for professional driver training.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Peter Lukszys, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison): In terms of different logistics applications, we see a lot of interest in humanitarian aid logistics and the impact of logistics strategies on climate change. In one logistics class, we turn the classroom into a distribution center for a period, and play a simulation game.

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Cash as answer to hunger

World Food Programme Logistics

Micheline Ngalara smiles as she counts the money she has just received during the last distribution to internally displaced people (IDPs) of the Djugu territory. Most fled fighting between armed groups and the armed forces of the DRC, from December to January. Displaced people in line for cash distribution at the Mwaka site.

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For the displaced and the forgotten

World Food Programme Logistics

“In times of crisis, natural or man made, immediate access to unconditional resources is a matter of life and death,” recognises Bruno Van der Pluijm, Belgian Director General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid. With limited access to education, jobs and opportunities, the youth often migrate or join armed groups.