U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green announced that the United States is providing $7.5 million in additional humanitarian assistance to help people in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas affected by Hurricane Dorian, which brings the U.S. Government’s total funding for this response to nearly $34 million.
This assistance was part of a whole-of-U.S.-government effort, in partnership with the Bahamian Government, charitable organizations, and the private sector, to address the acute humanitarian needs of those affected by the strongest storm to ever hit The Bahamas.
The majority of this additional funding will provide vital support to humanitarian partner Samaritan’s Purse for its field hospital at Rand Memorial Hospital on Grand Bahama Island. In addition to contributing to meeting the most-immediate humanitarian need, the funding to Samaritan’s Purse will also pay for the removal of debris to help people get back into their homes; emergency and transitional shelter for families whose homes Hurricane Dorian damaged or destroyed on Grand Bahama and in the Abaco Islands; and repairs to water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure and the provision of emergency water supplies in communities affected by the storm.
To date, U.S. funding in the wake of Hurricane Dorian has also included life-saving emergency food assistance, 53 metric tons of relief items – including plastic sheeting, water buckets, and hygiene kits – from USAID’s warehouse in Miami, and logistics support from the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security (especially the U.S. Coast Guard).
Original source: USAID
Published on 01 October 2019
