As I said, the humanitarian workforce program was essentially time-limited funding that was used to scale up the capacity of the Canadian Red Cross and other NGOs in Canada in order to respond to COVID initially, but clearly people have learned the lesson that this is an important capability to leverage and to support those NGOs to help in times of crisis, which the federal government has taken seriously. As I said, they have extended that funding.
In May of 2020, the government announced a commitment of $100 million to help the CRC and others meet increased demand due to COVID. An additional $70 million was added to that in December of 2020. Building on that, I think the fall economic statement in 2020 or 2021 offered another $150 million over two years to support these NGOs. That includes the CRC, of course, being national in reach, but also St. John Ambulance, the Salvation Army and the Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada, known by its acronym of SARVAC.
About 100 million dollars' worth of projects have been done and approved under that program in the midst of the COVID response, which is also handled by Public Safety and me and my colleagues here.