Amazon to help during hurricane season with quick delivery of disaster relief supplies
Written by Site Hub on June 2, 2021
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is among us and Amazon just released a statement that they will be working with Red Cross on a brand new disaster relief program.
Alicia Boler Davis, vice president of Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon stated:
“Our disaster relief and response team is partnering with global humanitarian relief organizations to leverage Amazon’s scale to help improve response time to large-scale natural disasters around the world.”
The senior vice president for Disaster Services with the American Red Cross, Trevor Riggen, says the program will be combining Red Cross disaster response background and Amazon’s delivery expertise.
Riggen stated:
“This most recent effort in the disaster relief hub is an opportunity for us (the Red Cross) to leverage their (Amazon’s) expertise in logistics and be able to work with them to get resources just in time to places that are hard to get stuff to. Places that are difficult to move resources without a plane, and Amazon has that capability to move things quickly.”
