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Abdel -Fateouma, CEO of the Human Rights and International Development campaign, was working to expand democracy in Sierra Leone for seven years.
The civil war was afflicted with the western coastal nation of Africa for decades, and ended in 2002 – slowly, peace returned, which helped reduce immigration and violence. Civil service defenders in Sierra Leone believe this progress, which is to care for democracy and human rights. The FATORMA campaign was awarded at the level of popular base in the United States in 2023 to continue working on these goals.
After about two years, the project – which strengthened a targeted participation for all citizens in their political systems, expanded the arrival of civil education and encouraged the aspiring to run for positions – last week when Foreign Minister Marco Rubio Temporary On all new American foreign assistance programs, funded by the Foreign Ministry and the US International Development Agency. Almost all agency workers Leave.
“It came as a shock and destructive,” he said Fatorma From his office in Fritown, the capital of Sierra Leone. He added the loss that created a “gap” in financing and “a vacuum in power” said that Russia or China could accelerate to fill.
Usaid More than 40 billion dollars managed to credits in 2023, according to Congress Research Service, a number less than 1 % of the federal budget. A large part of the financing is granted to American organizations that give money to local partners or popular groups, which implement projects in their countries.
Popular groups participate in implementing a set of humanitarian projects and activities, including work in Hospitals or health clinicsCombating human trafficking, operating programs that offer democracy, entrepreneurship or conservation.
Her complex financing structure Rotally criticized Due to the lack of reaching popular groups directly or directly, but regardless of this, thousands of defenders and workers around the world depend on the USA International Development Agency to implement a huge set of civil society work.
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Cooperative freedomCEO Julia Empire, CEO, who is based in Berlin, said that a global network includes about 3,000 defenders of trafficking, has 80 % of the reduction of its budget after receiving a stopping order last week. The organization said it was funded by a sub -rash from the United States Agency for International Development through Winrock InternationalAn international development organization runs 100 projects in 40 countries, mostly for the American government.
Mayer said since the freezing of federal financing, her group has been contacted by at least 50 partners. In a cooperative news message from freedom, Mathir was martyred in the Balkans that provide direct services to the survivors and in Thailand, where workers in shelters do not have money to pay the basics such as food, medical care and transportation. a job Cambodia diesFreedom Collboraage said that the Survivor Support Program from the United States Agency for International Development has been suspended and affects nine employees and dozens of survivors.
The newsletter said that the situation is especially comfortable for groups in Latin America, including an organization in Ecuador, who had to abandon 11 employees working with immigrants and individuals who have traveled, and groups in Colombia that had to stop all their operations.
It is extremely difficult to secure the financing of this type of complex business – this is often done in a great personal danger for local employees and victims -. The United States government is often the only donor who wants to provide money, Mashir said. She emphasized that the benefits of these programs exceed the individuals who receive help.
“It helps in global stability, and this is the biggest argument,” she said. “Work helps reduce organized crime. If there is no response or viewing these crime groups, they can start expanding, and this is very frightening because then a ripple effect. It is not only related to the human aspect.”
Mashir said that stopping the work suddenly “a major impact on the actual human life.”
Rubio told the diplomats Wednesday that the United States is not planning to stop distributing external aid completely, saying that the agency needs to do better in explaining and defense where the money goes.
“We will continue to provide external aid and participate in programs, but it must be programs that we can defend. We must be programs that we can explain. We must be programs that we can justify,” Rubio said to about 200 employees at the American embassy in Guatemala, according to a partial version of His notes obtained by CBS News on Wednesday.
Rubio also pointed out that although the spending of foreign aid is not popular with the public, “for those who are responsible for doing foreign policy, we understand it is necessary.”
Ed Okif contributed to this report.
