USAID to provide Electronic Cash Vouchers to IDPs in $240M Support Programme in Northeast Nigeria, Chad region

USAID to provide Electronic Cash Vouchers to IDPs in $240M support programme in  Northeast Nigeria, Chad region

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Making available electronic cash vouchers at various camps for IDPS in northeast Nigeria,  to help ease the cash needs of  internally displaced persons' is part of the packages the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said is contained in its over USD240 million support programme for all the IDPs in Norrheast Nigeria.

Mission Director of the USAID, Michael Harvey, has said that the US government is currently bankrolling a $240 million development and humanitarian assistance for internally displaced personsi in Nigeria's volatile North East.

Harvey was Wednesday in the city of Maiduguri, the birth place of Boko Haram, where he visited some of the IDP camps largely occupied by displaced women and children.  

The USAID Misson Director who visited some of the camps in Maiduguri informed government officials  that his visit is a further demonstration of United States government's long commitment to the partnerships with the Borno State government, the lake Chad region and humanitarian support to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Northeast.

"USAID has been a major financier and funder of UN agencies and other NGO'S that are trying to help Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) population that fled to Maiduguri and other parts of Nigeria because of Boko Haram insurgents activities in their communities "

"I have come to see circumstances in which the Internally Displaced Persons are trying to live and as well have first hand information of the works that is being done by the organizations USAID is funding "

"USAID have been financing UNICEF , IOM and others for the provision of educational and health facilities, sanitary and Water sources in various IDPs camps across the northeast and Nigeria, "said Michael Harvey.

He said USAID will provide Electronic Cash Voucher to the IDPs camps to enable families buy foods and other non food items such as medicine, knowing fully well that the people are cashless in the camps.

The USAID Director added that the Idea is to put basic platform to enable families get by so that when peace returns they can go back home.

He commended the Nigerian Military for their success against the Boko Haram insurgents, pointing that the success of the military guaranteed his visit to Borno and North East at large.