US grants $240M assistance to SL in 2022: Julie Chung

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The United States has announced more than $240M in new assistance to Sri Lanka in 2022 alone, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung said.

She tweeted that new assistance supports basic food security and addresses the needs of the most vulnerable communities, including funding for school lunches, fertilizer for small holder farmers, and cash assistance for new and expectant mothers.

"We are also supporting loans, training and assistance for SMEs in Sri Lanka, as they face the heaviest burden in times of crisis. This assistance is on top of our existing development partnership working with government, the private sector, civil society, and the people of SL," she tweeted.

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johan Saturday, 31 December 2022 08:04 PM

While appreciating your kind gesture , we expect you to put the country in the correct path.Still it is in wrong hands controlled by corrupt politicians and we expect SL should practice all democratic values and also proper mechanisms should be installed to bring back looted money and there should not be a recurrence of this nature.

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Happy Saturday, 31 December 2022 09:00 PM

Since the last big donation, there are still no medicines, food etc. in this country. who is she donating that money too?

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Buddhist Saturday, 31 December 2022 09:03 PM

Although USA is the so called richest country in the world, it has not financed SL at least to the amount India has helped.

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All Sri Lankans will agree with me except the Up Country Indian Tamil Estate labourers Saturday, 31 December 2022 09:14 PM

What is £240 million to America compared to billions they are spending on bombs and missiles fighting the Russians through a “suicidal” proxy. The white Christian Western countries who are a minority on this planet are obsessed with their skin colour, they think their “pink skin” which they like to call as “white” is something so superior that it should be protected at all cost , for example British royal family was very worried Prince Harry marrying a half black American could produce a dark skin grand child and the harassment against the half black daughter in law was so bad ,Prince Harry had to move away with his family to America . These Christian Whites control this world by sheer military resources ( Americans have 725 military bases in 80 countries )and using third world “traditional dogs “ like India ( over five million low caste Indians were taken all over the world including to Sri Lankan tea estates as “ Subhuman Labourers” by the British to prop up its economy ).

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Sri Lanka for Sri Lankans Saturday, 31 December 2022 09:39 PM

Sri Lanka can’t live like this , we have to become a rich powerful country like before the European invasions and religious conversions. We Only Need To Do Four Things And We Will Be Great Again: (1) Immediately start to Industrialise Sri Lanka on a mass scale (2) Like Britain make all the Sri Lankan papers and tv channels to become patriotic (3) Keep the elite schools private but remove their Christian influences completely. Converted Christians running these schools are brainwashing our children not to become ambitious by planting the image in their heads that they must worship the white race and keep low (4) Remove all the Up Country Indian Tamils from the Tea Estates back to India. They are a National Security Threat and also they are prone to Violent Crimes, violent crime exists in Sri Lanka but the difference is almost all the Up Country Indian Tamils are ,by their brutal sufferings , cold blooded.

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Sam Silva Monday, 02 January 2023 02:40 AM

You need to come out of your little dream world and see the reality in sri lanka.

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Dee Saturday, 31 December 2022 10:12 PM

Timing is not right. Elections are being called and apparently the Armegedons have nominations pouring in. You should have blocked the grants so that the people could be given many promises (after winning elections) of prosperity!

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RP Sunday, 01 January 2023 12:08 AM

Thank you Ambassador and USA! Happy New year! Cheers.

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Punchi Sunday, 01 January 2023 04:13 AM

Hopefully our favourite partner China’s ambassador will read this and match or increase its assistance to our perpetual basket case country in 2023

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Gayantha Hemachandra Sunday, 01 January 2023 11:01 AM

Dear Madam Ambassador……Though your great country and its people have generously granted $ 240 M as relief aids, it is sad to see much of the aid have been pickpocketed and misused by our greedy politicians and people are suffering unspeakable hardships and miseries…..By the way, ma’am, can’t your country’s Justice Department initiate legal proceedings against US Citizenships holders of Gotabaya and Basil Rajapaksas for their alleged involvements of looting our peoples wealth and grave abuses of their human rights . It is disgrace to see those Rajapaksas are abusing much cherished US Citizenship and using it further to loot our country.

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Nihal S Sunday, 01 January 2023 11:40 AM

Thank you the Ambassador. Are you sure these grants are properly utilized and not gone to the politicians pockets? If your grants can not guarantee that, then they are not helping the country - instead encouraging corruptions.

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Waco Sunday, 01 January 2023 02:14 PM

Do not forget approximately 85% of the parliamentarians are rouges including Ranil who does not have a mandate to sit in that chair.

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Punchi Monday, 02 January 2023 07:05 AM

If US gives us 10 times this amount, it could fund many convoys of vehicles for our parliamentarians, electricity, air conditioning and good d food to entrench the luxurious life style of our monks as evidence of the superiority of Buddhism, handouts to entrench the dependent beggar mentality of us Lankans and other beneficial activities

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Jef Tuesday, 03 January 2023 11:04 AM

75 year's independence but we have not learn to be independent due to poor political circle with no vision for nations prosperity Only to build wealth for them self

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