USAid for Georgia Relief

US efforts to help the people of Georgia have been spearheaded by a group called USAid. USAid is an independent federal governement agency. They receive foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State and spend less than .05% of the federal budget. USAid conducts itself on the platform of supporting economic growth, agriculture and trade, global health, and deomcracy. (www.usaid.gov)
USAid has been in Tbilisi since August 15, 2008, distributing food supplies, creating temporary transitional shelters for families, and offering local transportation in emergency relief communities. In correlation with USAid's office of Food For Peace, $1 million was provided to airlift emergency food supplies using US and navy aircrafts for those areas in ongoing emergency. With help from the US embassy, emergency medical supplies, blankets, bedding, clothing, and hygiene items have also been distributed. Other donors to Georgian cause are the World Bank, the United States, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) (www.usaid.gov). All of these groups have donated millions of dollars to help- the World Bank has issued agricultural development loans while the EU has been working on rehabilitating transportation through Georgia.The USAid assistance to Georgia is valued at nearly $39 million.