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Every country in the world is trying to deal with losing more than $60 billion in funding due to the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to cut over 90% of foreign aid contracts. By doing this, he has also put essential programs to a halt and as a result, millions do not have access to food, healthcare, or any kind of humanitarian aid.
USAID claimed to have terminated contracts with roughly 10,000 NGOs globally while justifying their actions by saying it was done “for convenience and the interests of the US government.” The world wide aid system greatly relies on America, which in the last 30 years has distributed as much as $1.3 trillion internationally, so the cuts made by the US are unprecedented and stem far more lethal consequences than what can be imagined.
Consequence on Global Humanitarian Work
Democratic Republic of Congo: Action Against Hunger will stop taking action against treating tens of thousands of malnourished children from May onwards which will endanger the lives of many.
Ethiopia: Over 1 million were cut off from food donations within the country and 5,000 health workers focusing on HIV, malaria prevention, and immunization were also sacked.
Senegal: All child and maternal health services, along with the biggest malaria campaign in the country that gave bed nets and medication is now inactive.
South Sudan: The International Relief Committee has closed a program that provided primary nutrition and health services to 115,000 people.
Colombia: A Norwegian Refugee Council program offering food, housing, and water to 50,000 displaced persons nine no longer operational.
Sudan: The cessation of 90 communal kitchens across Khartoum has stripped over 500,000 individuals from receiving food on a regular basis.
Bangladesh: Maternal and reproductive health care services offered to 600,000 women and children are no longer available.
Mali: More than 270,000 people have been cut off from food, water, and basic health services.
Burkina Faso: 400,000 people in the northern regions have been cut off from water services as well as gender-based violence aid.
Somalia: 50 health centers have closed leaving over 19,000 people a month without the necessary medical assistance.
Ukraine: Cash-based aid programs assisting 1 million people has been put on hold.
Afghanistan: Hundreds of mobile health teams have stopped working impacting 9 million people.
Syria: Health services for 2.5 million people have been suspended, shuting down of health clinics and referral hospitals.
Kenya: 600,000 people suffering from drought will no longer be catered for with food and nutrition.
Haiti: 13,000 people have been denied aid in terms of nutritional support.
Thailand: Hospitals supporting 100,000 Myanmar refugees have been shut down.
Nigeria: 25,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition will stop receiving food aid in April.
Philippines: The support program assisting disabled people with the disaster warning system has been terminated.
Vietnam: The program for the provision of medical services and training for the disabled has been closed.
Yemen: Two hundred and twenty thousand Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have lost an elderly person and maternal health care services and protective socioeconomic services.
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