It has a dry bureaucratic name, but has been ready for the use of therapeutic foods for more than a decade, serving as the lifeline of countless hungry children around the world. Made in the United States and distributed by the U.S. International Development Agency, it is a paste made from peanuts, milk and vitamins that can relieve an acute malnutrition form known as “severe waste.”
Now, the Trump administration has officially terminated many of the current contracts signed by the Agency for this life-saving nutrition that require the delivery of paste to hundreds of thousands of children, most of which are in Africa, Georgia’s nonprofits designed to serve them.
Mana's CEO Mark Moore said the ready-made paste boxes are now piled up in Georgia warehouses and may never be shipped abroad. “If these contracts are not restored, there is no doubt that the children will die.”
This is my next few days Report The goods have been suspected as Trump's massive shooting at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) includes overseeing employees on the latest round of contracts.
Of the Trump administration’s shocking decision this week to terminate 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) foreign aid contract, the Knicks’ arrangements were only hundreds of cancelled. As these cancellation details begin to tick, it is obvious. The latest turn ruins the narrative of Trump and his Marg propagandists trying to spin the cuts – they target “suffocation” within the United States Agency for International Development, which is about “waste and fraud” that they aim to achieve “efficiency.” All of this is considered absolute nonsense.
The entire damage of these cuts (Elon Musk’s so-called government efficiency division actions have done all the damage – it’s not clear. But Atul Gawande, a surgeon who previously led the AID Global Health Program, established a list of contracts for terminating through communication with partners working with AID. This includes programs that provide birth care for mothers and children, providing networks and other equipment to prevent the spread of malaria to stop the spread of Ebola and bird flu in dozens of countries, and more. Gawande noted that the cancellation would make the program helpful to tens of millions.
“It will be a huge loss of life overall,” Gawande told me in an interview. “The child may have died, obviously there will be a lot of deaths.”
at the same time, The New York Times A long list of other termination contracts have been developed, including plans to prevent polio, treat HIV and tuberculosis, ensure clean drinking water in war-affected areas and support public health in many other ways. Thousands of people benefit; now they won't.
Details of the cancelled mana contract illustrate this. Rutf is a sweet and nutritious peanut paste produced by mana that is safe to consume acute nutritional deprivation or on the verge of starvation to death. It is packaged in foil that does not require refrigeration, making it easy to distribute in areas that suffer extreme deprivation. Rutf is widely praised for its extraordinary innovation in feeding children facing hunger and death.
According to Moore, the latest contract to cancel mana will mean that there are about 300,000 children (mostly in Africa, none of them have received the aid package that Congress intended for them. But we are also losers: this miss Depend on American workers, made from peanuts and dairy grown by American farmers, have long received bipartisan bounty and goodwill. Now it accumulates in a warehouse in Savannah, unswept and unedited.
All of this wasted the rotation of the Trump World in defending the US International Development demolition. For example, Secretary of State Marco Rubio Already claimed Along the “life-saving humanitarian aid” will be retained. By any reasonable standard, many contracts that have just been cancelled are for this only.
And, there are no more ways to pretend anything about “efficiency” or “good management”. Such assistance is very cost-effective. Foreign aid not only forms a small part of our budget; things like RUTF cost relatively picky, but they spread a positive image abroad, and each treatment can save the lives of children.
Rubio then made a request for review of foreign aid earlier this month to ensure only “stupid” aid was cut. In fact, this “review” process is shocking even from a management perspective. Assuming that the government does intend to restore some of these contracts (unbelievable contracts), why does this review process require them to be suspended in the first place?
Even if some of these suspensions are indeed temporary, they still have dire consequences. Such programs rely on complex supply chains, involving workers in the United States and abroad. They need to continue delivering supplies and continue to manage over time. But for the time being, many people who benefit from ongoing treatments have now been “totally abandoned,” Gawande said.
“They paused a plane over the air, fired, and tried to tell us it wouldn’t be a disaster,” Garvad told me. “Termination of the contract means we don’t invest in rainfall at all.”
The fact that these cuts are handled in this way (wantonly and Courtly) introduces us to everything we need to know about the real goal of government: broadcasting the world a clear message that we are shrugging now to the poor around the world. As Awande said: “They almost cheered and celebrated the destruction of these plans.”
