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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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Meet Dina?—?on the front-line of responding to disasters in Indonesia

World Food Programme Logistics

Meet Dina?—?on Meet Dina?—?a We know our roles and other peoples roles and how to work together to reach our goals. We know our roles and other peoples roles and how to work together to reach our goals. Story written by Nabila Ernada Read more about WFP’s work in Indonesia Meet Dina?—?on

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IN PICTURES: Father’s at the forefront of fighting malnutrition

World Food Programme Logistics

The World Food Programme with Support from EU Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), is providing nutrition support to all Rohingya children under 5 years old along with pregnant and breastfeeding women. Photo: WFP/Saikat Mojumder Mohammad Elias “I’ve learned how to cook the porridge for my child and I have seen her become healthy.”

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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. Aster also teaches mothers the nutritious value of locally available foods and shows them how to prepare diverse meals.

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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

So, I’m using my personal one now and learning how to scan documents on my phone and how to survive without being able to print anything, but perhaps I’m saving some trees in the process! I miss the face-to-face discussions and stand-up meetings with colleagues. Nabin at home/work. That physical contact is limiting?—?I

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Mask making in Cox’s Bazar leading a way to handle the pandemic

World Food Programme Logistics

Meet the women in Cox’s Bazar utilizing their skills to protect their community from COVID-19. Roksana received training from WFP on how to make the masks and now is making 30 masks per day Photo: WFP/Nalifa Mehelin Roksana and Moyuna have never met and they likely never will.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. 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.