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

World Food Programme Logistics

Bashir’s friends came across a group of Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) volunteers who were supporting families displaced by the conflict. Photo: WFP/Hussam Al Saleh “I gained a huge amount of experience by joining this unit, I learnt how to negotiate humanitarian access, how to keep myself safe and handle radio communications,” he says.

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Drones to the rescue as Cyclone Desmond storms Mozambique

World Food Programme Logistics

These new skills are the result of multiple training opportunities led by WFP on how to fly, map, and coordinate with UAS. As UAS technology is implemented, humanitarian organizations have to be clear about what kind of data they are allowed to collect and who has access to it. UAS Coordination Training Madagascar, August 2018.

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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.

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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.