Emergency Supplies: World Vision Canada

World Vision Canada: Traditionally, employees and volunteers of the non-profits that descend on battered communities following disasters move from home to home, tent to tent, collecting details about the number of family members, their ages and other relevant data. That handwritten information is ultimately used to determine how much food, medicine and other emergency supplies are needed, according to The Star. Now World Vision Canada is using a $900,000 grant from the Department of Foreign Affairs three times as much as it originally asked for to expand the use of a cutting-edge mobile phone app to register refugees and other aid recipients and The international aid agencies that respond to humanitarian crises are leaving the paper-and-clipboard era behind. But different aid agencies can sometimes overlap, registering the same family multiple times as they rush to disaster zones and refugee camps, said Bart Witteveen, World Vision Canadas director of humanitarian and emergency affairs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.