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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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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.

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Let’s fly with the wings that save lives in Mali

World Food Programme Logistics

He was in Bamako to attend his organization’s annual performance planning meeting, which helps them adjust their programmes to serve people better. We chat about the challenges people living in Gao have been experiencing since crisis erupted in 2012; the services provided by aid groups but also the difficulties of humanitarian access?—?one

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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. We invite industry leaders as guest speakers in our classes and student club meetings.

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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. Photo WFP/Jacques David Around 1,300km south of Bunia we meet Bahati Mitondo, a mother of four. The causes of these confrontations remain unclear but one thing is certain: civilian populations always pay.

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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.