The United States, through USAID, announced over $130 million in additional humanitarian assistance to help people affected by the crisis in Sudan. More than four million women and girls in Sudan are at risk of gender-based violence due to conflict. More than four million children are estimated to be in need of protection. This additional assistance from USAID will continue to support humanitarian partners providing emergency food assistance, including through cash transfers.
WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 21: The United States, through USAID, announced over $130 million in additional urgently needed humanitarian assistance to help people affected by the ongoing crisis in Sudan. USAID Assistant to the Administrator Sarah Charles announced the funding during a high-level ministerial event on the humanitarian situation in Sudan and the region on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
More than four million women and girls in Sudan are at risk of gender-based violence due to conflict and disruption of health and protection services and, with the escalation of hostilities in Sudan, more than four million children are estimated to be in need of protection. Emergency health needs continue to grow rapidly as more than 80 percent of hospitals in Sudan are now out of service and attacks on health facilities continue to be reported.
This additional assistance from USAID will continue to support humanitarian partners providing emergency food assistance, including through cash transfers and lifesaving U.S. sourced and locally and regionally procured cereals, pulses, and vegetable oil. In addition, this assistance includes protection services, health care, nutrition support, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene services, among other relief, for millions of people in Sudan.
This funding will help partners continue to respond to devastating protection violations. USAID’s assistance will support gender-based violence prevention and response, as well as psychosocial support services for the most vulnerable and at-risk populations across the country.
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