The World Food Program (WFP) announced on Wednesday that it has teamed up with Uber, which it uses vehicles smaller than its own, to distribute emergency aid in Ukraine.
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As large vehicles struggle to reach people in need in metropolitan areas, working with Uber allows WFP to better coordinate, dispatch and track a fleet of small vehicles that deliver relief items from warehouses to people in need in densely populated areas of Ukraine
,” said a statement from the UN agency specializing in emergency food aid.
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Through this alliance, the WFP "
can bring its food closer to the people who need its help, dividing the deliveries into vehicles of different sizes, tracking each journey to its destination and confirming that the deliveries have been carried out in complete safety
", specifies the agency whose head office is in Rome.
Uber provides WFP with a customized version of the access platform free of charge
This collaboration has already been implemented in Dnipro, Lviv or kyiv, according to the same source.
Uber provides the WFP with a personalized version of the access platform free of charge, thus making it possible to organize in detail the deliveries within a radius of 100 km around the warehouses of the UN agency.
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The WFP states that it has "
intensified its operations in Ukraine and neighboring countries over the past three months
", and adds that it will provide by the end of June "
food and cash to more than 3 million people per month in the country
”.
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