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Each year Unicef, the United Nations children鈥檚 charity, procures billions of dollars of goods for delivery to those most in need all over the word. Many of those supplies will either have come from, or been organised by, the men and women working on the outskirts of Copenhagen in the biggest humanitarian warehouse in the world.

The world鈥檚 disasters roll through here in waves, and as they do the warehouse takes on a purpose of its own. The facility is intimidatingly large, and can store more than 36,000 pallets of life saving equipment. The unsung heroes of the facility are two huge robots, Robert and Roberta, which pick and pack many of the thousands of items shipped out on a weekly, such as schools in a box, a piece of kit which can run a classroom for 40 children and a huge variety of medical supplies. They also organise the millions of syringes, safety boxes and ultra-cold chain freezers necessary for the Covax initiative, the programme delivering Covid-19 vaccines to low and middle income countries. There is also an innovation lab which designs items needed in natural disasters, such as disabled toilets.

In this documentary, Sandra Kanthal visits the warehouse to hear from the people who work there, and find out how their efforts matter both inside and beyond the warehouse walls.

Producer/presenter: Sandra Kanthal

(Photo: The packing area at the Unicef Global Supply Hub in Copenhagen. Credit: Mansour/Unicef/UN0470463)