Community springs to action after the Philippines’ deadliest natural disaster
The Humanitarian Response Lab is pursuing an opportunity with the United Nations’ World Food Program to place a member of the MIT community in the Philippines to design new supply chain strategies that increase response capacity. In addition, lab director Goentzel has focused two of the student projects in ESD.283, Humanitarian Logistics, on the Haiyan response. In one, students work with the Red Cross and the Shelter Cluster to analyze the distribution of shelter and non-food items in the aftermath of the typhoon. In the other, students partner with the World Food Program and the Logistics Cluster to track logistics flows and identify bottlenecks during the response.