Blinken said that this financing will go to food, shelter, access to health, water sanitation, hygiene and protection programs for vulnerable groups, such as women, youth, indigenous people and the LGBT community.
Courtesy | He said that this package is part of the commitments agreed upon at the Summit of the Americas in June in Los Angeles
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, announced this Thursday a new package of 376 million dollars in humanitarian aid for Venezuelans in Venezuela and in other countries with the aim of alleviating the migration crisis in the region.
In a statement, Blinken said that this funding will go to food, shelter, access to health, water sanitation, hygiene and protection programs for vulnerable groups, such as women, youth, indigenous people and the LGBT community. .
Its objective, he added, is “to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable Venezuelans in Venezuela, to Venezuelan refugees and migrants, and to the generous communities that welcome them in the region.”
He said that this package is part of the commitments agreed at the Summit of the Americas in June in Los Angeles (USA), where twenty countries of the continent agreed to cooperate to curb migratory flows.
Of the $376 million, some $181 million will be distributed through the State Department’s migration office and more than $194 million through the United States Agency for Development (USAID).
According to the State Department, there are more than seven million people in vulnerable conditions within Venezuela and 6.8 million Venezuelans in 17 countries in the region.
With the new package, the humanitarian aid that the United States has allocated to Venezuelans since 2017 amounts to 2.7 billion dollars.
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