Have you ever hopped on a helicopter to deliver food assistance to South Sudan? We hadn’t either -- But luckily, some of our colleagues in the field have – and they’ve put together a photo diary of a recent mission by the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), showing exactly this. On 17 January, this air operation not only brought much needed food assistance to those affected by conflict in Jonglei State, but it also responded to an unexpected emergency call.

In October 2011, we profiled Gilda Zepada, a member of the Guatemalan cooperative APALH and the benefits P4P trainings had on her life. The cooperative’s president, Raul Contreras, who attended the Third P4P Annual Review in Rome in November 2011, now tells us how the cooperative itself also progressed over the last few years.