Earthquakes, epidemics, floods, drought - almost every day there is a natural disaster somewhere in the world. Often they get extensive coverage in the media, but more often it is a silent battle. Aidmatrix understands the challenges in disaster and makes it their business to help get aid to the stricken area quickly and efficiently. "Supply Chains have to reach every place on earth", Shari Temple, Managing Director, Aidmatrix Europe told us, but who has ever heard of Tuvalu? The tiny country in the middle of the Pacific Ocean exports less than 20 million USD and doesn't come up on the radar screen of even the world's best-connected logistics corporations. That doesn't matter to Aidmatrix. In November 2010, the non-profit helped organize the delivery of over 1.9 million USD in medicines and medical equipment to Tuvalu [through our partner IMEC - International Medical Equipment Collaborative] to help relief workers battle infections which afflict over 4,000 children in the country of just 12,000 inhabitants. In the near future The Supply Chain Council and Aidmatrix plan to work together to develop additional processes relevant to humanitarian relief delivery to enhance the existing SCOR (Supply-Chain Operations Reference) Model, which charitable organizations could use for their own logistics purposes.

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