Egypt sets world record for largest aid convoy

[DJKeefy]

Egypt has set a new record for the world’s largest aid convoy with 470 trucks, breaking the previous record of 416 held by the Netherlands since 2004.

The Long Live Egypt Fund, which supports poor families through initiatives and activities that provide social protection, targeted a million families in all the country’s governorates with the convoy.

It had 1 million cartons of foodstuffs and 2,000 tons of poultry. There were 1 million blankets as part of the Safe Winter initiative from the Ministry of Social Solidarity and the fund to protect families from the cold.

It had 500,000 items of clothing, 1,500 dialysis machines to serve 120,000 patients, and 1,000 wheelchairs for distribution.

The convoy also included equipment, nets, clothes and shoes to support around 50,000 small-scale fishermen nationwide. It will help orphaned girls who are about to get married by providing about 2,000 of them with basic equipment. Loom devices and equipment were distributed to 3,000 families to activate and support handicrafts.

The cost of the initiative has reached EGP1 billion ($63.88 million) and is dedicated to serving 1 million citizens. It has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the largest humanitarian aid initiative in the world.

On Friday the Minister of Immigration and Egyptians Expatriates Affairs Nabila Makram invited Egyptians living in the UAE to attend the lighting of Burj Khalifa with the Egyptian flag and the Long Live Egypt Fund logo to celebrate its registration in the Guinness Book of Records, after its success in organizing the largest poultry donation convoy in the world, the largest convoy of foodstuffs, consisting of 300,000 boxes of foodstuffs, and the largest convoy of aid trucks in the world.

The convoy set off on Nov. 20 to poor villages in 27 Egyptian governorates to distribute food with the participation of civil society organizations to ensure the speedy delivery of goods.

Tamer Abdel Fattah, executive director of the fund, said the organization was not satisfied with breaking two records and sought an official attempt to break the previous record for the largest convoy of trucks in the world.

He said the convoy’s success could be traced to the fund’s keenness to mobilize many parties to engage in community and volunteer work in Egypt through material and in-kind donations for the benefit of the fund, as well as through hundreds of young volunteers to serve families.

Volunteers participated in distributing the convoy’s contents to people in villages and remote areas.

The fund dispatched the convoy to the far end of the Egyptian border, distributing food and blankets to the residents of Bir Al-Abd, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai Governorate, in addition to the Wadi Al-Allaqi area, which is about 180 km from the city of Aswan.

Source: https://www.arabnews.com/node/1773356/middle-east

[newcastle]

On Friday the Minister of Immigration and Egyptians Expatriates Affairs Nabila Makram invited Egyptians living in the UAE to attend the lighting of Burj Khalifa with the Egyptian flag and the Long Live Egypt Fund logo to celebrate its registration in the Guinness Book of Records, after its success in organizing the largest poultry donation convoy in the world, the largest convoy of foodstuffs, consisting of 300,000 boxes of foodstuffs, and the largest convoy of aid trucks in the world.

I’m not convinced that needing, and achieving, the largest humanitarian distribution on record, to one’s own population, is something to “celebrate”.

[Who2]

From 1991 to 1997, the Serious Road Trip - once described as "the world's most rock'n'roll aid organization"

Over the next two or three years, TSRT implemented a vital aid distribution programme using an eight-truck fleet of brightly-painted trucks based at the Croatian port of Split and delivering humanitarian aid throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina. Between 1992 and 1995, TSRT trucks delivered more than 3,000 tonnes of aid. Simultaneously, TSRT circus projects reached out to children in refugee camps and other institutions throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina and neighboring countries.

Found these bits of information from my chequered past.
It is the 'ongoing delivery, not just a 'one-off, that is important.
Over the years I met many admirable voluntary NGO's,
They did one convoy, realised the exceptional difficulties and never returned.
Such is life....

[newcastle]

It is the 'ongoing delivery, not just a 'one-off, that is important.

Probably a one- off.

It needs to be monthly.

[Teddyboy]

I just wonder who will be collecting the "commission" as this convoy moves around.

[newcastle]

I just wonder who will be collecting the "commission" as this convoy moves around.

You can be pretty sure that the goods and foodstuff emanate largely from military- controlled businesses and that it will be the military responsible for distribution. No need for commissions when you can control how the money is spent!

[Dusak]

If they had reduced the cost of local dread, rice and cooking oil the whole population would of rejoiced and it would of cut the carbon emissions that this convoy would of produced.

[A-Four]

If they had reduced the cost of local dread, rice and cooking oil the whole population would of rejoiced and it would of cut the carbon emissions that this convoy would of produced.

You make a very interesting point here Dusak, which I have often pointed out on this forum. It is quite able to produce all three crops in Egypt quite easy, with two or even three harvests per year, but unfortunately there is still no common agricultural policy in Egypt.

Towards the end of the Mubarak era a new policy was to be introduced, which was to separate the bakery selling it produce, instead being sold in retail shops, this would then prevent the bakeries from weighting their produce with sand, which is common practice throughout the nation. I understand that a new idea for change has entered parliament, let's hope a new law will be passed.

Since this subjected has been posted, I am really surprised that no one has looked at idea as to WHY such a huge commitment, on what can only be called a biblical scale, and under a banner of humanitarian aid in its own country, must say that it's leaders are totally out of touch with its common people. Furthermore, something somewhere has given this 'democracy' a serious kick,......

Oh HAFIZ, how much this forum miss you, like others gone, but not forgotten. .