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United Nations World Food Programme launches mobile voucher pilot program for Iraqi refugees in...

                   
ringnokia.com
Nov 3, 2009
 
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Here’s another example of great use of mobile technology for good. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a mobile food voucher pilot project to aid 1,000 Iraqi refugee families in Syria. Here’s how it works... [read full story]                    

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SYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution

 irinnews.org Nov 4, 2009
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U.N. Announces Food Vouchers Sent By Text

 wfp.org Nov 2, 2009
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SYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution

irinnews.org
Nov 4, 2009
 

DAMASCUS, 4 November 2009 (IRIN) - A new pilot project by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria has come up with a novel way of getting food aid to Iraqi refugees. WFP claims the project is a world first.

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SYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution

alertnet.org
Nov 4, 2009
 

Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. A new pilot project by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria has come up with a novel way of getting food aid to...

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Phones But No Food

nytimes.com
Nov 3, 2009
 

We’ve blogged before about the growing role of mobile phones in economic development; now the phones will be used to deliver food aid as well. The World Food Program (WFP) recently announced that it will begin texting food...

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U.N. Announces Food Vouchers Sent By Text

wfp.org
Nov 2, 2009
 

In what the World Food Programme called a first, relief workers from the U.N. aid agency are using text messages to deliver food vouchers to refugees. The four-month pilot program kicked off last week in Syria, geared toward...

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