MBA 30‚ Global Supply Chain Management‚ Individual Assignment Cold chain in Humanitarian Aid – delivery of vaccines to patients in a relief situation. Meningitis campaign from Médecins Sans Frontières in South Sudan Student Numbers: 53283 Maastricht‚ 24th January 2014 Contents 1. Introduction / situation analyse 1.1. Increased supply chain in humanitarian aid Scott (2010) points out that donors in humanitarian aid ask for more value for money in relief operations and that
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As the author explained‚ “They had been lucky all these years. No one from Nya’s family had been hurt or killed by Dinka. But she knew other families in the village who has lost their loved ones this way‚” (Park 34). As a consequence of them living by the Dinka‚ there is a high chance that men could die. Because men are favored more than women in the book‚ if her dad or uncle is killed‚ the death is likely to make life harder for Nya.
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A long walk to water by Linda Sue Park discusses the story of a girl named Nya and her journey to find water. First‚ Nya‚ 11‚ walks half a day everyday 1 or 2 times in the blazing heat to fetch water at a pond in Southern Sudan for her and her family to survive. Secondly‚ Nyas family leaves 5 months a year to live by the big lake to survive. Also Nya’s little sister Akeer had a horrible stomachache she couldn’t even speak Nya said that she has seen it before it starts with a stomachache then diarrhea
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Human height is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body‚ standing erect. When populations share genetic background and environmental factors‚ average height is frequently characteristic within the group. Exceptional height variation (around 20% deviation from average) within such a population is sometimes due to gigantism or dwarfism‚ which are medical conditions caused by specific genes or endocrine abnormalities.[1] In regions of poverty or warfare‚ environmental
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In cultural anthropology and sociology‚ reciprocity refers to non-market exchange of goods and labour; that is‚ "gift economic systems". It is the basis of most non-market economies. The concept was key to the debate between early anthropologists Bronislaw Malinowski and Marcel Mauss on the meaning of "Kula exchange" in the Trobriand Islands off Papua New Guinea during the First World War.[1] Malinowski used Kula exchange to demonstrate the apparently random gift-giving was in fact a key political
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In his selection titled‚ “Introduction: Partial Truths‚” James Clifford asserts that ethnographies present “Partial truths” and‚ as such‚ are not entirely valid. According to Clifford‚ “Even the best ethnographic texts - serious‚ true fictions - are systems‚ or economies‚ of truth. Power and history work through them‚ in ways their authors cannot fully control” (p. 7). Due to these historical constraints‚ it is impossible for anthropologists to assert the ‘full’ truths about a culture and confidently
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of archaic cosmology alongside their transcendental assertions. Nonetheless‚ relative to earlier forms the historic religions are all universalistic. From the point of view of these religions a man is no longer defined chiefly in terms of what tribe or clan he comes from or what particular god he serves but rather as a being capable of salvation. That is to say that it is for the first time possible to conceive of man as such. Religious action in the historic
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them. The third reason is The Murahiliin soldiers devalue the S.P.L.A. For each of the reasons I will give two examples. For my first reason Alepho gives a part of his life on page 33‚ which is about Deng the slave. The Murahiliin attack the Dinka village‚ that was when Deng was taken away. Deng came back years later older and the town did’t recognize him because he got older. The master made him take care of the cattle and then do housework. Deng even got weak and thin. Another example is when
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barn and found someone else and saw that the person was the same tribe as him. The girl said to him “You must be hungry”. She stood and went into the house. A few moments later‚ she came out and gave him two handfuls of raw peanuts. Salva asked the women if he could stay with her until the fighting had stopped and then go and find his parents. The women was fine with it. CHAPTER 4 The women then took Salva to a place filled with Dinka people and Salva started to wonder if his family could be among
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The challenge this week was related to the good ol’ standardized testing. This year I was assigned to test the group of students that are placed in the class of newcomers‚ as in having been in the school for 2 months or less. Oh my! These students have never participated in a standardized test‚ so it was not only their first experience on a multi-hour test‚ but also at the same time it was my first experience testing brand new students in the school. Challenges went from bubbling all the answers
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