Pierre Boulet-Desbareau
Director of the Logistics Department, OCB
Médecins Sans Frontières

The greatest impact of humanitarian crises, whether linked to natural disasters or man-made, is on the health of the victims.

Coming to their rescue cannot be done without taking a medical perspective on the crises and the humanitarian needs ...

Michael Pritchard, CEO of Lifesaver Systems Ltd and patron of humanitarian aid event AidEx, talks about his recent return to Haiti and inhabitants’ access to clean water a year and a half on from the disaster.

The Haiti earthquake that hit in January 2010 affected an estimated three million people ...

Trevor Baylis OBE
Inventor and Patron of AidEx

These are testing times for young inventors. Spending cuts have taken so much out of the economy that growth in the engineering and manufacturing industry over the next few years will be slow, threatening the next generation of budding inventors.

The lack ...

Cor Hendricks,
Technical Training Manager at Toyota

Improving Road safety has already been for many years high on the priority list of national and international humanitarian organisations. Since a few years reducing the overall costs of operating a fleet of vehicles has become another priority. Recently Clean Fleet Strategies have ...

Howard Sharman, senior consultant with Advance Aid

The survey commissioned last month by AidEx showed that the crises deemed most worthy of support by Western donors were Haiti, the Japan tsunami and the Pakistan floods.  So far so predictable. 

The ones deemed least worthy were the earthquake in New Zealand ...

 

John Leach, Head of Operations of ShelterBox     

The relationship between disaster relief charities and their suppliers is as crucial as that between any commercial organisation and their suppliers. As charities become more commercial in their approach then this similarity will continue to grow. ShelterBox works very hard to ensure ...

Welcome to our AidEx 2011 blog, I’m delighted to be making the first contribution.  This will be the place where suppliers, manufacturers, engineers, charities and NGOs working in humanitarian aid can come together to discuss relevant issues affecting the sector.

Nicholas Rutherford, Event Director

We are now just four months away ...