Inside the world's biggest humanitarian warehouse
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Each year Unicef, the United Nations children’s charity, procures billions of dollars of goods for delivery to those most in need all over the word. Many of those supplies will either have come from, or been organised by, the men and women working on the outskirts of Copenhagen in the biggest humanitarian warehouse in the world. The world’s disasters roll through here in waves, and as they do the warehouse takes on a purpose of its own.
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| 0:00.0 | So where are we going now? |
| 0:03.4 | We are going into the first part of the warehouse. |
| 0:07.8 | How long did it take you to get from one end to the other? |
| 0:10.1 | I'd say it's a 15 minute jog to get from one end to the other. |
| 0:13.5 | I hope I wish I had roller skates. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome to the world's largest humanitarian warehouse. |
| 0:26.7 | How many people do you know that get excited about a warehouse? |
| 0:31.6 | If you do ever have a cause to think of one of these industrial creations, images of giant |
| 0:36.4 | shelves filled with thousands of boxes and machines to sort them probably come to mind. |
| 0:41.8 | And to be fair, all that's here too. |
| 0:45.0 | But this depot is different. |
| 0:47.3 | The world's disasters roll through here in waves. |
| 0:50.9 | And as they do, the warehouse takes on a purpose of its own. |
| 0:56.2 | When an emergency hits, the populations need assistance immediately. |
| 1:01.3 | So we have a key target that when an emergency hit, we need to have goods on the ground in |
| 1:07.0 | place 72 hours later. |
| 1:11.3 | On the ground means this warehouse dispatches life-saving aid anywhere in the world. |
| 1:18.4 | We've all seen images of disasters on TV. |
| 1:21.3 | Recently, they've come from places like Afghanistan, Sudan, and Tonga. |
| 1:26.0 | In the aftermath of a natural disaster or man-made conflict, getting humanitarian aid to vulnerable |
| 1:31.6 | populations quickly is the difference between life and death. |
| 1:36.6 | Often, those supplies will either have come from or been organized by the men and women |
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