United Nations Ebola Response Fund is a special fund set up by the United Nations Foundation to allow donations to support U.N. institutions to respond to the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.[1] The U.N. has received other money for Ebola, but the fund is more flexible in how it can be spent.[2] The U.N. announced the fund on 12 September 2014.[3]
They asked for one billion dollars to be donated, and by 21 October 2014 50 million had already been pledged.[4] On November 11 the Philippines government announced it would donate 1 million to the fund.[5]
