The decision of the Trump government to conclude the US Agency for International Development has raised widespread criticism from Congress Democrats and raised questions about the influence of billionaires Ally Elon Musk about the federal government.
The United States are by far the world’s largest source for foreign support, although several European countries assign a much larger proportion of their budgets. While the facilitate for Africa puts the approximately 2 billion US dollars that Latin America receives annually, the western hemisphere has long had an expenditure priority for both the democratic and republican administration.
Here is a look at the effects of USAid all over the world:
Protection of the Amazon rainforest and fight against cocaine in South America
USAID was of crucial importance to provide humanitarian aid in Colombia, nature conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon and Coca emissions in Peru. The most recent USAI money has also supported humanitarian aid for humanitarian emergency aid for more than 2.8 million Venezuelans who have fled the economic crisis.
In 2024 alone, the agency transferred around 45 million US dollars to the UN world food program, mainly to support Venezuelans.
In Brazil, the largest initiative in USAID is the partnership for the preservation of the biodiversity of Amazona, which focuses on the protection and improvement of livelihood for indigenous peoples and other rainforest communities.
In Peru, part of the $ 135 million financing of the USA in 2024 was dedicated to the financing of alternatives for cocaine production such as coffee and cocoa. The humanitarian agency has been trying to contain the production of the drug since the early 1980s.
Reaction to diseases, girls’ training and free school dinner in Africa in Africa
Last year, the United States in the Sahara region gave humanitarian support of more than $ 6.5 billion. Since Trump’s announcement, however, HIV patients in Africa have found blocked doors in clinics that were financed by a celebrated US program that supported the global AIDS epidemic to contain the AIDS epidemic.
Known as one of the most successful foreign aid programs in the world, the President of the President for AIDS relief (Pepper) was attributed to the rescue of more than 25 million lives, mainly in Africa.
“The world is amazed,” said Aaron Motoaledi, the Minister of Health of South Africa, the country with the most people who live with HIV after the US facilitate freezes.
According to Motoaledi, the US funds financed almost 20% of the 2.3 billion US dollars that are required every year for the HIV/AIDS program of South Africa via Pepfar. The biggest reaction to a single illness in history is now threatened.
In the meantime, other groups without US facilitate can give voluntary allowances for food and public transport in public relations to keep girls at school and from early marriages.
In Sudan, who deals with cholera, malaria and measles, the freezing of AID means that 600,000 people have the risk of catching and spreading these diseases, said an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not Authorized were publicly speaking to this matter.
A busy animal shelter without a doctor in Mexico
In the southern Mexican city of Villaherermosa, the peace oasis of the Holy Spirit Amparito Shelter is one of several beneficiaries of the USA’s humanitarian support for those who flee from persecution, crisis or violence.
As part of the financing freeze, the non -profit organization, which the shelter operates, had to cut off its only doctor and a social worker and child psychologist. Since then, the animal shelter has addressed the Mexican government because of alternative means for programs that were managed by the United Nations to pay flights and bus trips to the Mexican border with Guatemala for migrants who want to return home.
“The crisis will only deteriorate,” said the shelter in a explanation. “Those affected will be the most affected by the population that we serve.”
War aid in Ukraine
The US financing in Ukraine has contributed to supporting the fuel for evacuation vehicles, salaries for auxiliary staff, legal and psychological support and tickets for evacuated, which can achieve secure locations.
This includes the costs for the employ of a concert hall in eastern Ukraine as a fleeting center for civilians who flee from the relentless Russian bombing. This protection is now in danger because 60% of the costs – corresponds to $ 7,000 per month – have been covered by the United States
According to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his government expects the reduction in the aid of 300 to 400 million US dollars to be reduced. Most of it was for the energy sector that was targeted by Russia.
