Effects of DOGE on USAID.
1: In
Congo, aid group Action Against Hunger will stop treating tens of thousands of malnourished children….
2: In
Ethiopia, food assistance stopped for more than 1 million people….
3: In
Senegal, the biggest malaria project closed. It distributed bed nets and medication to tens of thousands of people……
4: In
South Sudan, the International Rescue Committee closed a project providing access to quality health care and nutrition services to more than 115,000 people.
5: A program shuttered by the Norwegian Refugee Council in
Colombia left 50,000 people without lifesaving support including in the northeast, where growing violence has precipitated a once-in-a-generation humanitarian crisis.
6: In
war-torn Sudan, 90 communal kitchens closed in the capital, Khartoum, leaving more than half a million people without consistent access to food, according to the International Rescue Committee.
7: In
Bangladesh, 600,000 women and children will lose access to critical maternal health care, protection from violence, reproductive health services and other lifesaving care…..
8. In
Mali, critical aid, such as access to water, food and health services was cut for more than 270,000 people
9. More than 400,000 people in northern
Burkina Faso lost access to services such as water.
11. In
Ukraine, cash-based humanitarian programs that reached 1 million people last year were suspended…..
12. In
Afghanistan, hundreds of mobile health teams and other services were suspended…
13. In
Syria, aid programs for some 2.5 million people in the country’s northeast stopped providing services……
14. In
Kenya, more than 600,000 people living in areas plagued by drought and persistent acute malnutrition will lose access to lifesaving food and nutrition support…..
15. In
Haiti, 13,000 people have lost access to nutritional support…..
16. In
Thailand, hospitals helping some 100,000
refugees from Myanmar have shuttered……
17. In
Nigeria, 25,000 extremely malnourished children will stop receiving food assistance by April…..
18. In
the Philippines, a program to improve access to disaster warning systems for disabled people was stopped…..
19. In
Vietnam, a program assisting disabled people through training caregivers and providing at home medical care stopped, according to Humanity & Inclusion.
20. In
Yemen, 220,000 displaced people will lose access to critical maternal health care, protection from violence, rape treatment and other lifesaving care, according the United Nations Population Fund.
And, expressions of concern and alarm will not be allowed in Trump 2.0. Part of his Free Speech initiative..
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Nick Enrich, acting assistant administrator for USAID Global Health, said in a memo that "lifesaving humanitarian assistance" has not been implemented under a waiver to cuts targeting foreign aid.
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The pace of change has jumped since Wednesday, when the White House unveiled plans to cut more than 90% of contracts held by USAID, which has been the world’s largest single aid provider for decades.
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