House thanks USAID for P1B aid to PH in Covid-19 fight

Before adjourning last week, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution thanking the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for its assistance, especially the almost P1-billion financial aid to the Philippines to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

House Resolution 954 principally sponsored by House Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez and Tingog party-list Rep. Yedda Marie Romualdez was adopted last Thursday to recognize USAID’s “consistent showing of great concern for the welfare of the Filipino people in these difficult times.”

The Romualdez couple said “USAID deserves the highest recognition and admiration of this grateful nation” for its demonstration of goodwill and promotion of democratic values and advances in governance, peace, and democracy.

“The USAID has always been providing full support to the Philippine government’s projects in terms of economic development and governance, education, environment, health, and other humanitarian assistance,” the resolution said.

In addition to the various development projects it received worth more than P5 billion ($100 million) last March, the Philippines obtained more than P762.6 million from the US, through the USAID and the State Department to fight COVID-19.

On June 5, the US Embassy said the US government will give an additional P201 million, bringing the total amount of aid to the Philippines to fight COVID-19 to over P978 million.

The resolution thanked USAID for its continued generosity, support and commitment to the Filipino people despite various issues hounding the relationship between the Philippines and the United States.

USAID serves as the world’s premier international development agency, which provides development assistance and humanitarian efforts to save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance and help partner countries, including the Philippines.

The resolution said the Philippines received from the US a total assistance of P29.6 billion ($582 million) in the health sector and P228.8 billion ($4.5 billion) for the country’s development goals over the past 20 years.

Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)