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All photos taken at the Brindisi to Amman airlift on March 13th, 2003
----- Brindisi, Italy at the WFP/WVI GPU (Global Positioning Unit) Emergency Warehouse and nearby military airstrip.
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| 1 | |  | | Plastic tarps are loaded onto the Illyushin before it leaves for Amman. The tarps will be used to provide shelter to some of the 60,000 refugees that are expected to come through Jordanian camps within the next three weeks. |
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| 2 | |  | | World Vision Regional Vice President for the Middle East and Eastern Europe, Dave Robinson helps load plastic sheeting onto the Illyushin before it leaves Amman |
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| 3 | |  | | World Vision staff load supplies onto the transport plane, which will fly the supplies from World Vision’s warehouse in Brindisi, Italy to relief staff in Amman, Jordan. The supplies will be distributed to refugees in Jordan, Syria and other countries bordering Iraq. |
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| 4 | |  | | Relief supplies are brought into the back of the Illyushin. The plane will carry three 10-ton trucks and thousands of blankets, collapsible water containers and plastic sheets for use as temporary shelter to refugees in the countries surrounding Iraq. |
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| 5 | |  | | A forklift brings supplies to the transport plane. |
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| 6 | |  | | Warehouse staff prepare to load one of three 10-ton transport trucks onto the Illyushin. |
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| 7 | |  | | World Vision Regional Vice President for the Middle East and Eastern Europe, Dave Robinson discusses the transport with a warehouse staff member. |
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| 8 | |  | | A transport truck begins to drive onto the transport plane bound for Amman. |
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| 9 | |  | | One of three 10-ton transport trucks is loaded onto the Illyushin |
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| 10 | |  | | Loading the Illyushin. |
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| 11 | |  | | The doorway to the warehouse World Vision shares with the United Nations is framed between two 10-ton transport trucks, which will travel to Amman, Jordan. The trucks will transport relief supplies around the Middle East where World Vision is preparing to respond to a possible refugee crisis in the area. |
