ProCharter Awarded Worldwide 3-Year NGO Contract

This award recognizes the capabilities and proven experience of ProCharter to provide a dynamic response to requests for logistics consultancy services and support, deploying high-caliber staff at short notice to austere and challenging environments worldwide. Our team has worked hard in recent years to achieve the recognition it deserves, and this award is the result of a huge team effort. We look forward to providing an excellent service in the future.

– Steve Day, Managing Director, ProCharter

ProCharter is delighted to be awarded a three-year contract with a prominent international humanitarian organization to provide comprehensive multi-modal aviation and logistics consultancy services and support worldwide.

This award follows the completion of a similar 18-month international contract in West Africa:

A team was deployed to oversee a high-profile, multi-million-dollar, multi-modal project involving numerous countries, including Togo, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Mali, Benin, Egypt, China, Cambodia, Nepal, Jordan, Bangladesh, Italy, El Salvador, Guinea, and Liberia.

The logistics involved the movement and storage of nearly 800 vehicles and shipping containers using over 200 cargo flights, 6 chartered vessels, and 400 tons of dangerous goods and sensitive cargo, requiring special management, documentation, and planning.

NDTA Annual Fall Meeting 2023

ProCharter is a keen supporter and member of NDTA. We see the value of having a trusted environment where Government, Military, and Private sector professionals can solve pressing challenges in the fields of logistics, transportation and aviation.

– Steve Day, Managing Director, ProCharter

ProCharter was delighted to attend the 2023 National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA) annual Fall Meeting in Orlando, FL.

The program included General Sessions with four to five keynote speakers including the Commander USTRANSCOM and two to three moderated roundtable discussions. Featuring a Transportation Academy consisting of over sixty classes organized under eight topic tracks and taught by general/flag officers and C-suite experts, in a dynamic Expo Hall & Resource Center with opportunities to network and share information. Professionals could receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for their certification requirements.  Lastly, there was a wide variety of meetings to include government, industry, NDTA Committees, and Young Leader Professional Development sessions.

Throughout the NDTA/USTRANSCOM Fall Meeting, Surface Warrior subject matter experts are among those presenting Transportation Academy courses, where information and training are provided about various topics and focus areas for military, government, and commercial partners. The Irregular Warfare Center also participated in this year’s conference. During the event, IWC leadership and staff set up an information booth to showcase the Center’s mission, objectives, goals as well as answer any questions and provide information about future collaboration opportunities.

Based in the USA, National Defense and Transportation Association (NDTA) serves as a trusted environment where Government, Military and Private Contractors can get together and solve pressing challenges in the fields of logistics, transportation and passenger services.

What a great opening day at the 2023 NDTA Fall Expo! The room was abuzz with conversation as attendees and exhibitors made valuable connections and strengthened relationships with key representatives from industry, military and government.

“Advancing U.S. Power Projection with Allies & Partners“

The Fall Meeting is a four-day, NDTA-USTRANSCOM co-sponsored, annual event providing government and industry the opportunity to identify and solve logistics and transportation issues together; learn about innovative technologies, develop best practices, and build professional and personal relationships.

This year’s theme, “Advancing U.S. Power Projection with Allies & Partners,” considers the global strategic competition occurring in a highly contested environment and the need to provide leadership in close coordination with allies and partners to provide the logistics and transportation capability and capacity to globally support U.S. national security interests.

Attendees bring a wide range of U.S. Government, industry, allies and academic experts together with the goal of building relationships, educating on a wide range of topics, solving logistics and transportation challenges, achieving a resilient Defense Industrial Base and building a strong U.S. national defense.

– NDTA

Mission & Goals

Since World War II, the National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA) has served our country’s national defense and homeland security as a trusted environment where government, military, and private sector professionals can solve pressing challenges in the fields of logistics, transportation, and passenger travel services.

NDTA is a non-political, non-profit educational organization. Our three priorities are to:

• Maintain that “trusted environment” by facilitating strong working relationships, education, and the exchange of ideas
• Invest in programs and capabilities that provide value to our corporate and individual members, and help develop the next generation of professionals
• Serve the broader national security interest through a new focus on all government stakeholders in logistics, transportation, and passenger travel

We have a rich history, dating back to 1944. In that time, NDTA has established a great track record of service; including real-world disaster relief through partnerships with organizations like American Red Cross, the creation of transportation studies and white papers, the development of emergency management plans, and exercises in cooperation with the military.

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This week, we’re excited to announce that the renovations to our office are complete! We want to make your personal experience with us pleasant and comfortable as well. The changes in our office are aimed at that goal, so that you experience the absolute best.

– Andy Fleming, CEO

We are pleased to announce we have completed the renovation of our new Dubai office! Our new office in Dubai’s Jumeirah Lakes Towers (near the Dubai Marina) will allow us to comfortably grow and provide our clients with the highest level of service in Dubai and across the Middle East, as well as Europe, Africa and Central Asia.

“This week, we’re excited to announce that the renovations to our office are complete!” commented Andy Fleming, CEO. “We want to make your personal experience with us pleasant and comfortable as well. The changes in our office are aimed at that goal, so that you experience the absolute best.”

As a part of this move, we are happy to announce openings for two new positions, Charter Sales Manager and Passenger Sales Manager. Applicants are welcome to submit an application.

We look forward to seeing you!

ProCharter ~ Main Office
Office 208, Jumeirah Bay X2, Cluster X – Jumeirah Lakes Towers
Dubai – PO Box 338333 – United Arab Emirates

 UAE +971 4 591 9602   |    [email protected]

SOS Children’s Villages Charity Donation

‘ProCharter are proud to sponsor the SOS Children’s Villages charity in Sri Lanka. The charity do a fantastic job and we look forward to supporting them in the future. ProCharter has strong connections with Sri Lanka through our local staff and previous United Nations projects, so it is a natural fit for us.’

– Steve Day, Managing Director

Children learn much about the world through watching and imitating others. ProCharter embraces the importance of this concept by helping people in the communities where our employees live and work. This year we’ve made a generous donation to SOS Children’s Villages in Sri Lanka to provide children in the village of Nuwara-Eilya with one of the best gifts children need as they learn, grow, and develop—a nutritious meal.

SOS Children’s Villages Sri Lanka builds families for orphaned, abandoned and other vulnerable children who have lost parental care. When children cannot live with their biological families or lose families due to various reasons, SOS Children’s Villages gives them a second chance to build their lives in a safe and loving home environment. SOS Children’s Villages has been serving Sri Lanka for over 40 years with 6 Children’s Villages in Piliyandala, Galle, Nuwara-Eliya, Anuradhapura, Monaragala and Jaffna, supporting more than 41,000 children.

SOS Children’s Villages

The first SOS Children’s Village was founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Tyrol, Austria, in 1949. As a child welfare worker, Gmeiner saw how children who were orphaned as a result of World War II suffered. He was committed to helping them by building loving families and supportive communities.

Born to a big family of farmers in Vorarlberg (present-day Austria), Gmeiner was a talented child and won a scholarship to attend grammar school. His mother died while he was still a young boy, and his eldest sister Elsa took on the task of caring for the smallest of the children.

Having experienced the horrors of war himself as a soldier in World War II, he was then confronted with the isolation and suffering of the many war orphans and homeless children as a child welfare worker after the end of the Second World War. In his conviction that help can never be effective as long as the children have to grow up without a home of their own, he set about implementing his idea for SOS Children’s Villages.

With just 600 Austrian schillings (approx. 40 US dollars) in his pocket Hermann Gmeiner established the SOS Children’s Village Association in 1949, and in the same year the foundation stone was laid for the first SOS Children’s Village in Imst, in the Austrian state of Tyrol. His work with the children and development of the SOS Children’s Village organization kept Hermann Gmeiner so busy that he finally decided to discontinue his medical degree course.

In the following decades his life was inseparably linked with his commitment to a family-centred child-care concept based on the four pillars of a mother, a house, brothers and sisters, and a village. Given his exclusive focus on the need to help abandoned children, the rest of his biography reads like the history of SOS Children’s Villages themselves. He served as Village Director in Imst, organized the construction of further SOS Children’s Villages in Austria, and helped to set up SOS Children’s Villages in many other countries of Europe.

In 1960 SOS-Kinderdorf International was established in Strasbourg as the umbrella organization for SOS Children’s Villages with Hermann Gmeiner as the first president. In the following years the activities of SOS Children’s Villages spread beyond Europe. The sensational “grain of rice” campaign raised enough funds to permit the first non-European SOS Children’s Village to be built in Daegu, Korea in 1963, and SOS Children’s Villages on the American and African continents followed.

By 1985 the result of Hermann Gmeiner’s work was a total of 233 SOS Children’s Villages in 85 countries. In recognition of his services to orphaned and abandoned children he received numerous awards and was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he was always at pains to stress that it was only thanks to the support of millions of people that it had been possible to achieve the goal of providing abandoned children with a permanent home, and that still applies today. Hermann Gmeiner died in Innsbruck in 1986. He is buried at SOS Children’s Village Imst.

‘All the children of the world are our children.’

– Hermann Gmeiner, Founder

SOS Children’s Villages is currently active in 132 countries and territories. 438 SOS Children’s Villages and 346 SOS Youth Facilities provide more than 60,000 children and youths in need with a new home. More than 131,000 children/youths attend SOS Kindergartens, SOS Hermann Gmeiner Schools and SOS Vocational Training Centres. Around 397,000 people benefit from the services provided by SOS Medical Centres, 115,000 people from services provided by SOS Social Centres. SOS Children’s Villages also helps in situations of crisis and disaster through emergency relief programmes. – Wikipedia

Photos © SOS Children’s Villages

ProCharter’s Continuing Orphanage Support

‘We rise by lifting others. Here at ProCharter we express that belief by trying to make a difference in the lives of everyone we touch.’

– Andy Fleming, CEO

The challenges of the pandemic have weighted heavily on the school as it struggled with lengthy lockdowns. Despite these restrictions and inevitable setbacks caused by school closures, The Abode Project orphanage charity in Uganda has not lost its can-do spirit to provide vulnerable children with long-term access to a quality education. After a prolonged absence, the children have finally returned to school and resumed their regular routines, as best they can has the virus continues to challenge us all. As a part of ProCharter’s continuing support and commitment, we have provided a new set of school uniforms for each and every child, in addition to the sport’s kits we provided in 2019.

The Abode charity was founded in 2017 and its main aim is to help some of the poorest kids in Uganda gain a decent education. The charity has already funded a new school and is doing some fantastic work. ProCharter’s CEO Andy Fleming commented ‘we are very happy to do our little bit to help these kids, Africa is a market we work in and have experienced first hand the hardships they endure on a daily basis, remarkably, often with a smile on their faces’

The Abode Project

‘When worlds collide at the most basic, instinctive and primal point of contact; amazing things happen, and the opportunity for exponential development ignites like an untameable wildfire.’

The Abode Project is a non-profit organisation born from the essential pillars of the house music community, sourcing funds via private and public donations along with raising money through the medium of hosting large-scale club events/festivals around the world.

In 2017 the charity built its first school and orphanage in the Kabale region of Uganda (predominantly know for being one of the poorest and unprivileged parts of Africa). Unfortunately, due to complications, the project collapsed, and it left a large number of orphans & students back at square one with no education or residence (many returning to their local communities 2-3 hours away with shattered dreams).

In November 2018, the charity returned to Kabale to visit a newly purchased plot of land with 39 eager volunteers. Among the volunteers were tradesmen and women, DJs, Promoters, Nurses, Artists, Photographers and Videographers. Some friends, some total strangers.

Throughout the eight-day period, those 39 volunteers became a very personal and emotional family; they worked harder than they even knew they were capable of at times for hours and hours on end with a no-nonsense attitude.

What was achieved in that space of time is something that has had an internal and external impact on everybody it has touched. An abandoned School, Orphanage, Outhouse and tired piece of land now shines brightly as a beacon of hope for an entire community and many generations to come. It is now home to The Abode Project School & Orphanage; a place of education, shelter, opportunity, security, humility and unity; a project that will continue to grow and expand into one of the poorest parts of an entire continent.

Several classrooms, dormitories, offices, a community hub where technological knowledge will be provided to help integrate these children into western society and give them a slice of the life we are so undeserving of in comparison, a music centre where children can nurture their talent for natural rhythm, the list goes on and on…

This is still the very beginning, but with the help of your compassion, affinity and funding we genuinely believe there is no limit to what we can achieve.

– Abode Project

This is still the very beginning, but with the help of your compassion, affinity and funding we genuinely believe there is no limit to what we can achieve.

For the price of a pint of beer or some new mascara you can feed an entire family in Kabale for a week, for as little as £20 a month you can pay for a child’s education and board at our school and orphanage. That’s the same price as a round of drinks on a night out that you probably can’t even remember anymore!

Who says the poorest of the poor can’t become scientists, doctors and more? Just because it hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean we can’t be the generation to open the door…