The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Wednesday a new batch of 42.5 million dollars in humanitarian assistance for the peoples of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The sum “will help our United Nations (UN) and NGO partners reach 182,000 people across the region with life-saving assistance,” the agency said in a statement.
The new assistance, USAID maintains, will support programs that reduce food insecurity for the most vulnerablewill support survivors and those at risk of gender violence and children in need of protection, in addition to helping households to “restore their livelihoods and provide drinking water to poor families”
The agency even points out that it will continue to expand its initiatives to strengthen preparation, mitigation and response to natural disasters.
With the new announcement, the total USAID humanitarian funding for these three countries reaches almost 261 million dollars, as of April 2021 and is generated, according to the Agency, at a time when more than 9.3 million people in known as the Northern Triangle will require humanitarian assistance, according to estimates from the UN Humanitarian Response Plans for 2023.
The new USAID funding was announced virtually by Humanitarian Assistance Office Assistant Administrator Sarah Charles during the 2023 North Central America Humanitarian Roundtable in Geneva.
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