Text: Although feeding dying babies should surely qualify for the vague foreign aid waiver issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the salaries of the staff and the cost of the fuel to get the therapeutic food to hospitals like mine are not. Without USAID employees, nobody can open the warehouses where the life-saving packets from the American people are stored. In Burundi, it will take us three months to get new supplies into the country. We might have planned for this had we known we would be cut off. But we were given no warning when the programs that support the care of sick and hungry children were sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency” in one harsh, abrupt stroke. Seeming indifference, from the American people.
Text: Although feeding dying babies should surely qualify for the vague foreign aid waiver issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the salaries of the staff and the cost of the fuel to get the therapeutic food to hospitals like mine are not. Without USAID employees, nobody can open the warehouses where the life-saving packets from the American people are stored. In Burundi, it will take us three months to get new supplies into the country. We might have planned for this had we known we would be cut off. But we were given no warning when the programs that support the care of sick and hungry children were sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency” in one harsh, abrupt stroke. Seeming indifference, from the American people.