Canada is providing support to the Caribbean Region in the wake of Hurricane Beryl.
Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of International Development, announced that Canada is providing over $1 million in humanitarian assistance funding in response to the devastation caused by the hurricane.
This funding will allow Canada’s humanitarian partners to provide life-saving assistance, such as emergency food and nutrition services, protection and logistics services, and to ensure that humanitarian goods are dispatched and that humanitarian workers continue to be able to respond to the crisis in the face of daunting challenges.
Of this amount, $500,000 will be allocated to the World Food Programme (WFP) for emergency food assistance and logistics services.
As part of a Government of Canada project with the Canadian Red Cross Society’s Emergency Disaster Assistance Fund, $160,000 will be allocated to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies relief operations in response to its appeal for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Jamaica.
In addition, Canada is also deploying essential relief items to the Jamaica Red Cross valued at up to $350,000.
