article thumbnail

‘Becoming a humanitarian was my way of saying no to what was happening in Syria’

World Food Programme Logistics

Bashir was just 20 years old and studying at university when the conflict began. Bashir’s friends came across a group of Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) volunteers who were supporting families displaced by the conflict. large convoy of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid moving from government- to opposition-held areas.

article thumbnail

Lunch is served

World Food Programme Logistics

A major reprieve A group of girls share lunch at a school in Dadaab refugees camps. Better access to education WFP’s school lunch is helping children concentrate on their studies and they can now stay in school for afternoon lessons. Photo: WFP/John Mwangi Hassan Ahmed is a 58–year-old father of 13. This is a big relief for me.”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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. Second, we study the flow of goods and services that are the ever-present relays of intermodalism.

article thumbnail

Amidst extreme poverty, cash

World Food Programme Logistics

I will borrow more money from the village women’s savings group. This will help her to earn at least the minimum of just less than US$1 she has to pay weekly to the women’s group. It is important to be in the group, she says, because she can access money in emergencies. The group has 25 women and all are refugees from DRC.

article thumbnail

At hunger’s ground zero in Uganda, an aid worker counts her sacrifices, and blessings

World Food Programme Logistics

Because of COVID-19, WFP suspended non-life saving programmes such as agricultural and market support to smallholder farmers’ groups. “We A girl collects maize as part of her take home ration that allows her to continue to study from home even when their schools are closed due to COVID-19 restrictions in northern Uganda.