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Helicopter for change

World Food Programme Logistics

In Zimbabwe, the World Food Programme (WFP) extended its humanitarian air transport service to other UN agencies and NGOs to help deliver donated items to affected communities Following Cyclone Idai, road access to several parts of Manicaland province?—?particularly particularly in the Chimanimani district?—?was was cut off.

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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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World Food Programme staff respond to coronavirus in Lebanon

World Food Programme Logistics

Ruba’s work involves the distribution of food e-cards, onsite project monitoring and liaising with various partners. “We We are organizing food e-card distributions so that a minimum number of people are present at the same time in the same place.

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To see Ethiopia truly prosper, malnutrition needs to be defeated

World Food Programme Logistics

Aster Tesfaye the community teacher, showing the women how to prepare the nutrient-dense porridge and administer the ready-to-use, peanut-based paste that she distributes. Life-saving assistance at risk Due to a funding shortfall, WFP cannot meet all the nutrition needs in the country and has had to focus only on the worst affected districts.

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Yemen: How is WFP supporting the humanitarian community?

World Food Programme Logistics

Through the Logistics Cluster, WFP has been able to import fuel into Yemen and made available to humanitarian organisations. From April to May, over 65,000 litres were distributed to 30 organisations , through the Logistics Cluster fuel provision service. 3) Transporting humanitarian aid, fuel and supplies by sea.

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In Pictures: Rediscovering the joy of family mealtime

World Food Programme Logistics

This is replacing the in-kind distributions of rice, lentils, and oil and supporting families to have greater autonomy over what they eat in a situation where they’ve had very little. The World Food Programme is scaling up its e-voucher food assistance with support from EU Humanitarian Aid (ECHO). Photo: WFP/Saikat Mojumder.

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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.