Agility Vietnam partnered with Bao Van Pagoda, a local nonprofit, to distribute food to more than 3,000 locals in several areas in Vietnam and Cambodia.

National Aviation Services (NAS), a leading global aviation services provider and one of Agility’s subsidiaries, donated 7,000 COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Testing (RDT) kits to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Uganda.

These RDT kits will allow the MoH of Uganda’s COVID-19 National Task Force to carry out tests and get results within 15 minutes. The shipment was carried out with the support of the Group Chief Executive Officer of NAS, and the General Manager of NAS Uganda.

The test kits were transported from Kuwait. NAS helped sort on the ground movement of the shipment and customs clearance expertise to deliver the kits in three weeks.

Agility moved two truckloads of PPE from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Maputo, Mozambique, for PLeDGE Health, a U.S.-based NGO. PLeDGE is working to set up the first emergency room in Mozambique. As more donations came in, Agility worked to ensure enough truck space. At the same time, word of South Africa’s impending shutdown led to a shortage in trucks and long waits at the border. When the cargo arrived in Maputo, Agility arranged for storage at the newly built Agility Logistics Park. Agility also managed onward movement to hospitals in Maputo and to the Maputo District Ministry of Health warehouse. The PPE is intended for use at all seven hospitals in Maputo.

Following the 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria Agility and its employees donated enough funds to feed about 43,000 refugees impacted by the earthquake. In addition to this Agility also supported the UN Global Logistics Cluster’s response operations in Turkey. Agility supported the Cluster’s provision of warehouse services to NGO’s working to assist beneficiaries in recovering from the disaster. From March to May, 3,518 m3 of humanitarian cargo was stored in the Logistics Cluster’s common warehouses in Adiyaman, Hatay, and Malatya. The stored items were used by NGO partners to support tens of thousands of displaced persons and beneficiaries in need of assistance.

On September 9th an earthquake struck central Morocco. The biggest city impacted was Marrakesh, but the most severe impact was in the mostly mountainous and rural regions of south-central Morocco. In these locations about 3,000 people were killed, and tens of thousands of people lost homes and possessions. This area of the country is mountainous, and the nighttime temperatures are very cold even in summer. With autumn and winter approaching shelter, food and life support assistance was of critical importance. Agility provided funding to Amis des Ecoles so they could quickly construct a tented school, complete with a kitchen and bathrooms, for 100 kids to make sure the earthquake did not keep the kids away from learning. In addition, the Amis des Ecoles team procured and distributed critically need items including shelter, clothing, blankets, life support essentials and food for 120 families – including 600 children – in need of assistance.

National Aviation Services (NAS) and Agility are collaborating to support Born to Learn, an education NGO operating in Tanzania. With NAS and Agility’s resources, a technological and multimedia classroom was outfitted to support 350 students, from ages 3 to 22. Our contributions have provided computers, tables & chairs, a project & screen, and monthly maintenance costs. In addition to vocational skills training, the classroom will be used to teach English, math, biology, history, geography, arts, and music. As well, internships will be offered to deserving students at NAS offices in Tanzania. NAS employees will also engage in running workshops relating to technology and computer use to further enhance the children’s knowledge and skills.

National Aviation Services and Agility partnered to construct a canteen for a local school in Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire. The new canteen created a shaded area for 250 students and faculty to take a break and eat a meal in a safe, comfortable space. The canteen includes a special ramp to make it wheelchair accessible and is available for community members to use outside of school hours. Prior to the construction of the canteen, the students had no shelter from the heat or rain during mealtime, or had to return home for meals. By having a canteen on the school property, students are more likely to stay at school for the entire day.

Five Years Supporting UNHCR from Agility on Vimeo.

With Agility’s support over the past five years, UNHCR was able to help people in Malaysia, Jordan, Lebanon and Uganda with basic needs, from livelihoods, education to health interventions.