The UN’s World Food Programme has partnered with Uber to deliver aid to residents in war-torn Ukraine’s urban regions.
It claimed in a statement on Wednesday that food had already been delivered in Dnipro, and that deliveries were also being made in Kiev, Lviv, Vinnytsia, and Chernivtsi.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi stated in a statement that the business was providing free access to its platform.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said that by the end of June, it would be giving food and cash to more than three million people in Ukraine on a monthly basis.
“Through this platform, WFP can get its food closer to those people needing its support, dispatching deliveries in various sizes of vehicle, tracking each trip to its destination, and confirming deliveries have been made safely,” it said.
Thousands have died and millions have been forced to abandon their homes as a result of the battle between Russia and Ukraine, which began in late February and has nearly destroyed large swaths of the country.
“Using our technology, WFP can now schedule, dispatch, track, and manage deliveries by a network of cars and small vans to final distribution points within a 100-kilometre (60-mile) radius of WFP warehouses across the country,” he said.
