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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

Djenabou, who fled to Cameroon in 2014 with her husband and children, is part of a group of refugee women who work as retailers in the camp. Most of the refugees depend on humanitarian assistance for their basic needs including food. It is an activity that has given them a new lease to life.

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Lunch is served

World Food Programme Logistics

A major reprieve A group of girls share lunch at a school in Dadaab refugees camps. The students have more time in class and fewer interruptions in learning over the course of the school year. Prior to that, varying level of cuts have had to be effected in order to avoid a complete halt in food assistance to the refugees.

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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.

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Cash as answer to hunger

World Food Programme Logistics

Most fled fighting between armed groups and the armed forces of the DRC, from December to January. I can pay for my family’s healthcare and school fees as well as food, of course. “We She now lives in Loto village, 70km from Bunia, the main town of Ituri province; 2,600 IDPs are being assisted by WFP and its partner, InterSOS.