AMMAN — USAID said on Sunday that it would
give an additional $22 million in humanitarian assistance to help efforts to
address the urgent food needs of refugees in Jordan, according to Al-Mamlaka
TV.
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USAID said that the extra funding will enable the
World Food Program (WFP) to provide food vouchers and monthly cash assistance
to 465,000 refugees.
This new assistance will raise the total USAID
contribution this year to nearly $89 million, which represents about one-third
of the total WFP financial needs to provide food aid in Jordan in 2022.
Yet, despite the extra aid, WFP still suffers from a
deficit of $34.5 million, which forced it, starting this September, to reduce
by a third the amount of cash transfers for 353,000 refugees living in urban
areas and other host communities in Jordan, said USAID.
USAID issued a statement expressing concern that
these cuts will lead to more refugee families being evicted, and having to move
to refugee camps.
USAID Mission
Director in Jordan
Sherry Carlin said that the current global food security
crisis can only be addressed through global coordinated action, the commitment
of countries to collective action, humanitarian aid, and investment in food
systems, and urged other donors to continue supporting the Syrian people, in
view of the scale and urgency of the needs.
According to the statement, the USAID’s Office of
Humanitarian Aid enabled the WFP to provide basic food assistance to 465,000
Syrians and other vulnerable refugees in Jordan each month.
The statement
indicated that since the beginning of this year, more than 80 percent of the
refugees in the camps, and 90 percent of the refugees in the host communities,
have been suffering since the beginning of this year, either from food
insecurity or exposure to it.
The statement stressed that without the aid provided
by the WFP with funding from the USAID, approximately 85 percent of all
refugees in camps, and 70 percent of refugees in host communities, would not
have been able to bear the cost of the minimum commodities they need to
survive, including food.
In turn, the WFP said that support from the people
and government of the US, amounting to $523.6 million over the past
10 years, has strengthened the program’s capacity and response to refugees in
Jordan and enabled it to provide cash transfers to help half a million refugees
to cover their food needs.
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