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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PRESS RELEASE
WASHINGTON, DC 20523
PRESS OFFICE
http://www.usaid.gov
(202) 712-43202001-076
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 24, 2001Contact: USAID Press Office
Washington D.C. -- Andrew S. Natsios, administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), today announced more than $26.5 million in grants to the United Nations and other international organizations to provide non-food aid to the people of Afghanistan. The funds will be administered through USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) for FY 2002. The grant money will be provided to the following non-governmental organizations and spent on a variety of projects:
Agence d'aide à la coopération technique et au développement (ACTED) Distribution of complementary foods, non-food items and winterization assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in northeast Afghanistan $6,130,000 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Seed distribution and multiplication projects $ 300,000 International Medical Corps (IMC) Health assistance for IDPs and local residents in and around Herat $ 735,000 United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Nutrition surveillance, health, and water/sanitation activities country-wide; water and environmental sanitation activities and in kind contribution of five Emergency Health Kits $ 4,179,415 Save the Children (SC/US) Nutrition surveillance in northern Afghanistan. Delivery of complementary foods and winter heating for hospitals and vulnerable IDPs $ 2,206,488 United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Coordination of United Nations humanitarian operations in response to the current situation in Afghanistan $ 2,500,000 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Support for pre-positioning and mobilization of food and non-food stocks for 540,000 drought and war-displaced people $ 2,500,000 World Food Programme (WFP) Support for a Joint Logistics Center and humanitarian air operations $ 2,500,000 GOAL Provision of complementary food products and addressing shelter, water, and sanitation needs of IDPs in northern Afghanistan $ 5,500,000 Total USAID/OFDA FY 2002 $26,550,903 The funds were budgeted prior to September 11 and are not part of the $320 million supplemental in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan announced by President Bush on October 4.
The United States has supplied more than 80 percent of all food sent to vulnerable Afghans through the United Nations World Food Program, and will continue to be the leading food donor to the Afghan people.
The U.S. Agency for International Development is the U.S. government agency that has provided development and humanitarian assistance worldwide for nearly 40 years.
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