U.N. Launches Global Humanitarian Response Network
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Naorobi, Kenya (AHN) - The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has launched a global emergency response network, with offices strategically located in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, in a bid to quickly respond to magnitude and growing number of humanitarian works. The network was launched in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi during the Humanitarian Development Summit which intents to draw up policies to immediately address the growing challenges of sudden humanitarian emergencies which can occur almost simultaneously. Ramiro Lopes da Silva, director of the WFP's Transport and Procurement Division said, "With the growing number of natural disasters, aid agencies must be better prepared and better equipped to reach affected populations, as quickly as possible." Giuseppe Saba, coordinator of U.N. Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) said, "Modeled on the U.N. Humanitarian Response Depot in Brindisi in southern Italy, each emergency hub will stock strategic supplies of relief goods and equipment, ready for transport within 24-48 hours by air and sea." The UNHRD is a new network composed of humanitarian response depots in Accra, Dubai, Panama, Malaysia and Brindisi.
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