For more than 20 years, WFP Aviation has organized the transport of food, Non-Food Items and other humanitarian supplies to spots where poor road infrastructure and insecurity make surface transport impossible. To respond to emergencies, the swiftest means of reaching displaced people in the remotest parts of the world with the urgently required relief aid is by air. With a lead time of 48 hours, WFP Aviation is able to get relief to hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their livelihood in wars or natural disasters.
9,000 metric tons of relief goods were transported in 2009 during regular emergency operations while almost 2,000 metric tons of supplies were airlifted for sudden onset emergencies with a total of 37 dedicated flights for WFP and other humanitarian agencies. There are on-going food drops in South Sudan and airlift of food and non-food items to Dungu, DRC from Entebbe. The helicopter operation on behalf of WFP in Nepal is also 100% cargo delivery to isolated communities in the high mountains in the West of the country which have severe food deficits due to drought. Most of the relief goods requested to be transported for the sudden onset emergencies are organized through strategic airlifts, not only for WFP, but also for other UN agencies and NGOs.
Cargo transport by air was the original mandate of WFP Aviation, delivering over these years large quantities of food by cargo aircraft in Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola and Sudan. Since inception, WFP Aviation has delivered almost 700,000 metric tonnes of cargo.
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WFP News
- 29 July 2010Hunger Solutions On Shores Of Lake Victoria
- 29 July 2010WFP Executive Director sees revolution in fighting hunger by Africa helping itself
- 29 July 2010Arroyo exec defends surplus rice imports
- 29 July 2010WFP Scales up Safety Nets in Support of the Government’s Agenda for Change
- 29 July 2010Politicians not focusing on food security situation: WFP
