Advance Aid works with Cardiff on logistics
June 21st, 2009
Advance Aid has been working with Dr David Taylor, Senior Research Fellow in the Logistics and Operations Management Department of Cardiff Business School on a project to evaluate and then improve the supply chain for Non Food Items (NFIs) supplied to the victims of emergencies and disasters.
June 6th, 2009
Advance Aid has created Let the Light In, a new ecommerce site that allows people to purchase solar powered torches and lamps. And for every one that is purchased, one is donated to an African family that needs it.
David Dickie to speak in Washington
June 6th, 2009
Advance Aid’s Director David Dickie has been invited to speak about “Responsible, ethical purchasing and supply chain management” at International Aid & Trade 2009, the international humanitarian forum for networking and building partnerships for humanitarian relief on the 9-10 July in Washington D.C., USA.
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
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.
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:
- 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!
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
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*).
ADVANCE AID SPEAKS AT INTERNATIONAL AID + TRADE
January 24th, 2007
David Dickie 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 spoke about African Development Challenges with Edwin Laurent from the Commonwealth Secretariat. Read the report about their workshop here.