10,000 Syrian refugees receive help on Ethereum blockchain

On May 31, the United Nation's World Food Program (WFP) project was completed. The goal of the project was to send tens of thousands of food to Syrian refugees, which could be exchanged for crypto-assisted food stamps.

According to CoinDesk, the platform was successfully used to track and manage the distribution to around 10,000 people. The platform was implemented by Parity Technologies, a startup of the Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood and the Blockchain BigData company Datarella.

Alexandra Alden, an innovation consultant for the WFP, explained CoinDesk:

"All the funds the refugees have received through the WFP have been specially created to buy food such as olive oil, pasta and lentils."

The WFP is now busy preparing further analyzes. For example, you want to find out how many transactions have been made.

Expand the project

As reported in May, WFP plans to expand the project to 100,000 in Jordan in August. Should this plan work, the whole project will be open to all refugees in Jordan by the end of 2018.

Alden also hopes that the project will soon be able to go beyond the borders of Jordan.

She explained:

"First of all, the plan is to use the project all over Jordan, but we are already planning on applications in other regions."

The organization is currently working with partners from the humanitarian and private sectors. They may help to achieve "Zero Hunger" by 2030, Alden said.

It is remarkable that since the Jordan Project a lot of blockchain projects have been announced by the UN. Authorities and companies under the umbrella of the United Nations are taking care of their implementation.