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USAID Announces Plan to Help Displaced Persons in Colombia

Plan Colombia:
USAID Announces $25 Million for Displaced Persons
For Immediate Release
Thursday, September 28, 2000
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has granted $25
million to five non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to provide
social services to 660,000 displaced Colombians. USAID, through these
U.S.-based NGOs and international organizations, will help local
governments promote employment for displaced persons and help them
obtain basic healthcare, primary education, and decent shelter. The
majority of displaced persons receiving assistance from USAID are
located in city slums and rural areas in northern Colombia and along
the Pacific coast. These Colombians have been displaced by guerrilla
and paramilitary violence and, being unable to return to their place
of origin, have become long-term displaced until the conflict is
resolved. The five grantees are:
-- World Vision received $3.9 million to work in four urban areas:
Soacha (near Bogota), Bucaramanga, Monteria, and Cali. The project
will create jobs, promote basic health care and sanitation, improve
shelter, potable water, and sewage drainage, and improve access to
primary schools. The two-year project will benefit 98,000 persons,
primarily women heads of household and children.
-- The International Organization for Migration received $8.9 million
for job creation, basic health, primary education, shelter, and
community services. The assistance will reach 87,000 beneficiaries
over two years in the departments of Putumayo, Caqueta, Narino, Valle
de Cauca, Santander and Norte de Santander.
-- The Panamerican Development Foundation received $9.0 million for
job creation, basic health, primary education, shelter, and community
services. The two year project will benefit 75,000 persons near
Monteria and Villavicencio
-- UNICEF received $1.7 million to help the psychological recovery of
children who have been displaced or traumatized by violence in Meta,
Cordoba and Putumayo. The two-year project will assist 8,000 children.
-- Profamilia, a Colombian NGO, received $1.5 million to provide
primary health care to over 400,000 persons. Services will be
delivered through Profamilia's network of private clinics for two
years.