Humanitarian Air Cargo Shipments

AWB uses its air cargo experience, expertise, knowledge and contacts to help UK charities ship humanitarian supplies throughout the world for a wide range of humanitarian projects.

We mostly provide logistics support for the air freighting of loads for small charities that need assistance and, where possible, we also contribute to the cost through our humanitarian airfare options. On occasions, we also ship much larger loads for larger international NGOs.
The freight is carried on board scheduled flights at preferential rates thanks to the cooperation of our network of helpful freight forwarders.

AWB is also a member of Airlink, a wonderful NGO based in Washington DC, who helps link charity members wishing to ship humanitarian cargo with airline partners offering space at preferential rates, and sometimes for free. Through our humanitarian air service. AWB regularly ships loads of water purifying kits for Lifewater to Uganda, has shipped school supplies to Nairobi for the Kenyan Child Foundation and, for the Mityana Community Development Foundation, has also shipped to Uganda loads of equipment for schools and tents, uniforms and other items for the Scouts and Guides.

In a two-year project with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) several loads of toys totalling five tonnes were shipped by AWB to Amman for distribution to Syrian refugee children in the Za’atari and Azraq camps in northern Jordan. The programme was run in association with the Scouts and Guides who collected, sorted and packed the toys and we organised the shipping of the loads.

AWB also shipped a 1.5 tonne load of medical packs for International Health Partners (IHP) to Juba in South Sudan in November 2018. Airlink, with Kenya Airways, kindly supported the shipment and the medical packs were donated to the International Medical Corp (IMC) for the great work they do in the war-torn country. In 2018 we shipped over 3 tonnes of air freight.