Uber has built a “private-label” version of its delivery platform to help the United Nations deliver food and water supplies to war-torn areas of Ukraine.
- The tech firm is working with the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP).
- Uber’s platform enables the WFP to co-ordinate a fleet of smaller vehicles.
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The scheme is being trialled in the central city of Dnipro. The hope is that it will be rolled out later across four other cities: Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv and Chernivtsi.
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