Disaster relief in Africa: All about creating local jobs

April 17th, 2008

David Dickie of Advance Aid interviewed by Toby Webb CEO of Ethical Corporation regarding emergency relief materials , economic stimulation in Africa and how UK corporates can get involved.

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5824&ContTypeID=61



ADVANCE AID TO SPEAK AT INTERNATIONAL AID + TRADE 2008

January 15th, 2008

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Advance Aid’s Director David Dickie has been invited to speak about ‘Strengthening Capacity in Disaster Response’ at Geneva’s International Aid + Trade Event from January 29th-30th, 2008.

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SPREAD THE WORD IN 2008!

January 8th, 2008

Advance Aid is shining a light on a new way to save lives and increase trade within Africa. Here are some fun and useful things you can do to help:

- Vote for your favourite new marketing line for us here.
- Join our Facebook group Friends of Advance Aid.
- Spread the word about Advance Aid to your friends who work in Corporate Social Responsibility or in voluntary organisations who can help deploy aid; or who can provide money or expertise to enable African emergency supply manufacturers to learn new skills; or who are African suppliers who may want to become an Advance Aid partner. They can all find out more on our home page. Thanks!



VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE STRAPLINE

December 18th, 2007

We’ve spent this year getting Advance Aid up and running, and now we need your advice about the best strapline to go with our logo.

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ADVANCE AID CONNECTS WITH FACEBOOK

December 14th, 2007

Do you use Facebook? We’ve set up a Facebook group called ‘Friends of Advance Aid’ for everyone wanting to network and discuss African development challenges, international aid supplies, logistics and deployment, skills transfer work in Africa, corporate social responsibility and related topics. Please join in on Facebook here and let your friends know, too.



ADVANCE AID ATTENDS THE FRITZ INSTITUTE ANNUAL CONFERENCE

April 23rd, 2007

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Advance Aid attended the prestigious Fritz Institute annual Humanitarian Logistics Conference (HLC) in Geneva from April 23-27, with representatives from 35 other humanitarian organisations (pictured*).

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ADVANCE AID SPEAKS AT INTERNATIONAL AID + TRADE

January 24th, 2007

David Dickie and Simon Lucas of Advance Aid spoke at the International Aid + Trade annual event held in Geneva. Aid + Trade is an international forum bringing together key stakeholders from the humanitarian sector worldwide. David and Simon spoke about African Development Challenges with Edwin Laurent from the Commonwealth Secretariat. Read the report about their workshop here.