What I want to state here is that, because of the tremendous relationships that we've had with the diaspora community, we have a good knowledge base of what is going on. This allows us to make sure that our humanitarian support gets to the right people. More importantly, we need to try to anticipate.
As I stated, we were one of the first nations, alongside actually only two nations, to provide humanitarian support through the United Nations early on, and other organizations, and to provide flexible funding so that if the situation changed they could adjust on the ground. That's exactly what's happening right now. We knew that the Canadian generosity was going to be there, so we have the matching funds and we have flexibility to do more.
The big appeal.... When I was at the UN I spoke with Martin Griffiths, who's in charge of OCHA, to discuss what the next steps were. We moved very quickly to announce our $100 million Canadian for support. What we are also doing is coordinating our support with the USAID. I had long discussions with administrator Samantha Power. She has sent a team, and so have we, to help coordinate our response but also to make sure that we coordinate our response with the EU who are actually leading the coordination piece there.
We know that there's a particular focus on Poland, but we also know that other nations are seeing different needs so we're trying to get that better sense and be as flexible as possible. In times of crisis what we want to do is to move the resources and the funds to the right places so that they can have the flexibility to respond very quickly on the ground.