bdnews24.com :
The USAID has announced $18.4 million to the UN World Food Programme to provide emergency food assistance for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar.
This latest contribution, combined with earlier contributions, brings the total amount awarded to the World Food Programme specifically for work with refugees in Bangladesh to more than $24 million since August last year, the US Embassy said.
Total US government humanitarian assistance for all entities working with displaced people in and from Myanmar in the region is more than $177 million since October 2016.
The USAID has announced $18.4 million to the UN World Food Programme to provide emergency food assistance for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar.
This latest contribution, combined with earlier contributions, brings the total amount awarded to the World Food Programme specifically for work with refugees in Bangladesh to more than $24 million since August last year, the US Embassy said.
Total US government humanitarian assistance for all entities working with displaced people in and from Myanmar in the region is more than $177 million since October 2016.
Food insecurity and malnutrition remain serious concerns in Cox’s Bazar.
More than 62,800 children under five are in need of treatment for acute malnutrition and 120,000 pregnant and lactating women need nutrition assistance.
This new assistance will give the most vulnerable people the nutrition services they need to survive and will target upwards of 36,000 children under five to help fight acute malnutrition and child mortality, USAID Mission Director Janina Jaruzelski said in a statement.
