Using the Local Supply Chain to Help the Local Economy

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The situation in ukraine is very different to other crises that you've worked with. There are a lot of differences based on the location and scale of the crisis. We don't even know yet how the situation will play out, so need for the goods is ever evolving. It's estimated that 60% of all items that arrive at a disaster side cannot be used immediately or even have to be destroyed. The amount of unaddressed cago, meaning goods that are just being sent without a real or defined recipient, is clogging the intar structure. So it is a massive problem.

“My big call to action would be to support existing organizations,” says Susy Schöneberg, the founder and head of Flexport.org, the nonprofit arm of the logistics firm Flexport. Schöneberg and her team are organizing complex shipments of relief goods to Ukrainian refugee sites across Eastern Europe; she breaks down how her organization has been safely managing the flow of goods toward displaced refugees and the best way you can get involved — as a citizen or company. She leaves us with a lesson that applies to any crisis: joining together can produce far better results than trying to do it alone.

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