With most programs financed byUS International Development AgencyCut and the remaining staff of the agency said that their work will end until September, the reality of the Trump administrationFor more than 60 years, international development has stopped suddenlyBusiness is sinking.
Billionaire Presidential Advisor Elon Musk,Fee to remove USAIDHe called the Agencyguilty and corrupt. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that many programs have not advanced American interests. Management programs continue to cancel,Including humanitarian and food aidand said it would beRoll the remaining programsTo the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Two months before the deductions, some workers and organizations who once carried out these programs are developing various initiatives to stop the dismissal of the US foreign aid.
Direct cash that will dismiss workers
Laura Meissner has worked as a contractor for the USAID since 2010 and specializes in humanitarian aid, which is especially promoted to people in need.
In early February, a friend approached him to help him start a donation collection to benefit other USAID workers who lost their jobs like him. USAID10,550 people employedIn Washington and in offices around the world, about half comes from other countries.
A small organizer group was finally established with MeissnerSolidarity fundIn fact, with the Great Washington Community Foundation, which will directly grants the old workers. The grants will start at $ 650 and will increase depending on the size of the household.
Meissner said, “We want to make a meaningful amount to make a real difference in buying grocery store, paying medical invoice, rent or mortgage payment or keeping lights open,” Meissner said.
So far, the Fund has collected about $ 16,000 from 140 donors and suggested that he has already received funds for 10 applicants.
“It is very easy to feel like anything that matters because there is too much big problem and it seems to be happening at the same time. But everything is important, even if it is just for someone,” he said.
Research to help foundations and funds with more money
Even for people who read international development, it was difficult to understand all waysUSA affected deductionsarea. The think tank, which prioritizes the cost activity in aid interventions, examined the gaps created by the interruptions to help donors to respond.
ThemProvide a graphicEncourage how big the US financing is in any area and encourage fund providers to think about how urgent the effects of the outages will be felt. They also recommend donors to think if others can fill the gap.
Tom Vargas, a senior researcher in the thinking organization, said that he hoped that the research would help: “He logically spread money. We finance what other people will not finance.”
They suggest that their research affects large and small donors and should also be given to emergency funds.
Bridge funds to get money for programs that can still operate
Within a month after the pause in the USAID programs, some non -profit organizations have startedemergency fundsTo get money to life -saving programs or to stabilize the organizations that will otherwise close. The United Nations Agency, which responds to conflicts and famine, even World Food ProgramHe started a donation collectionWe hope to bring $ 25 million from US donors.
So far, emergency funds have increased from a few hundred thousand dollars of individual donors to over $ 3 million, and some have already given hundreds of thousands of dollars.
FundsYemeni Organization that provides emergency food suppliesto sendDirect cash to people who escape from violenceIn the Republic of Democratic Congo, a Kenya organizationSupports people living with HIVAnd to a program battleMalnutrition in Ethiopia.
Support for closing or combining organizations
Quantity collected by bridge fundsNot approachingInstead of the tens of billions lost in the US aid deduction.
Many international development organizations, even those who do not directly receive funds from the USAID, the establishment of the impact of the US deductions, the founder and CEO of the accountable laboratory, Blair Glencorse, said that existential financing problems, he said.
He said that more than one -third of the non -profit organizations responding to the surveys had a financing of less than three months.
“The data since the beginning has shown that organizations would fall off a cliff,” he said. “And that’s what we’re starting to see.”
The organization often received news from more than 70 non -profit -free organizations in the global South, who wanted to explore unification, return programs, wrap up, or establish a partnership to prevent the disappearance of their most valuable assets. These assets may include employees, properties, systems, individuals or intellectual property.
Glencorse said they would have a cost between $ 30,000 to 50,000 dollars for each transaction or merger and that they had established a team of experts who can help organizations. “Partnership Matching Service”And estimate that non -profit organizations are between 6 and 9 months to help make these major organizational changes.
The stepped effects of the US foreign aid deductions, “Snowball effect is really starting to take this point,” he said.
This story initially took part in Fortune.com
