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U.S. Emergency Response

U.S.G. Offices for Emergency Response

  • Afghanistan – little girl holding USAID food can
    USAID Food for Peace Program

    USAID Food for Peace Program (Public Law 480) promotes the food security of developing countries by providing food aid to save lives, to help people recover from crises and to support nutrition and development in impoverished countries. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient nutritious food to meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life.  

  • A boy laughs while queuing during a food distribution in Chota Lahore camp Swati district of Pakistan.
    USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance

    USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) is the office within USAID responsible for facilitating and coordinating U.S. Government emergency assistance overseas. As part of USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), OFDA provides humanitarian assistance to save lives, alleviate human suffering, and reduce the social and economic impact of humanitarian emergencies worldwide.   Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2009 (PDF 18.3MB) »

  • Sudanese woman
    State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

    The mission of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) is to provide protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world on behalf of the American people by providing life-sustaining assistance, working through multilateral systems to build global partnerships, promoting best practices in humanitarian response, and ensuring that humanitarian principles are thoroughly integrated into U.S. foreign and national security policy.  

  • Children eating lunch from cups
    U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program

    The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program helps promote education, child development, and food security for some of the world’s poorest children. It provides for donations of U.S. agricultural products, as well as financial and technical assistance, for school feeding and maternal and child nutrition projects in low-income countries. 

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