US Provides $152 Mln Additional Humanitarian Assistance to Tigray

Addis Ababa, April 9, 2021(Walta) – In response to growing needs in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region, the United States is providing more than 152 million USD in additional humanitarian assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

This new funding will enable USAID to provide life-saving aid to more than three million people in Tigray to address hunger and acute malnutrition.

The fund will also help to provide safe drinking water, urgently needed medical and health support, and shelter for some of the estimated one million people who have fled their homes, according to USAID.

USAID support will also provide protection for the most vulnerable including safe spaces and psychosocial support for women and girls, case management for survivors of gender-based violence, training for social workers and community caseworkers, and programs to reunite children separated from their families.

“With heavy hearts but continued optimism about the future, the American people are again standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our Ethiopian brothers and sisters to alleviate the needs and suffering of millions of people,” said USAID Ethiopia Mission Director Sean Jones.

According to ENA, the United States is the largest donor of humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia, and this latest announcement brings the total contributed by the American people for the Tigray crisis to nearly 305 million USD.