
US President Donald Trump presents an executive order during the inaugural parade in US January 20, 2025. — Reuters
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Berlin/Bangkok/London: Humanitarian organizations have decided to freeze the aid from the world’s largest assistant assistant assistant assistant assistant America on the orders of President Donald Trump.
Trump last week withdrew the US Agency for International Development Development Aid for 90 days to assess compatibility with his “US First” policy.
The move has raised alarm bells among aid groups around the world that depend on our major.
Thai refugee camps are involved in the program in light of the Trump administration’s measuring drugs for Field Hospital, Men’s Clearleration in War Areas, and millions of diseases such as HIV.
Human sympathy organizations and UN agencies say that if frozen becomes permanent, they may face strict restrictions on the ability to distribute food, shelter and health care.
The United States is the largest partner in global humanitarian aid, which has estimated an estimated $ 13.9 billion in 2024, which is 42 % of all UN aid.
According to a senior aid worker, clinics in Thailand’s camps were ordered to provide asylum to about 100,000 refugees from Myanmar, according to a senior aid worker, freezing funds to the US International Rescue Committee. After the closure was ordered.
According to a memo seen by Reuters, Washington said it would exempt frozen in some areas, including emergency food assistance.
The Bangladeshi government said in a statement that the United States has exempted more than one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh for emergency food assistance.
However, the waiver does not apply to other human -friendly programming. For example, shelter organizations will not be able to buy new materials for refugees for the construction and fixing of houses for refugees, said a rescue worker based in Bangladesh.
According to another memo shown by Reuters, these deductions will also affect the supply of life -saving medicines for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis around the world, which millions of people rely on.
On Tuesday, contractors and partners working with USAID began receiving such memo to stop the work immediately.
Negative effects
“This is disastrous,” said Atul Gonde, a former World Health Health head in USAID this month, said. “Drug supply has been donated in which 20 million people live with HIV. It stops today.”
The reduction will affect 6.5 million orphans in 23 countries and organizations working with weak children with HIV, Gavende said.
The World Food Program Country Director for Afghanistan Husseu-Vei told Reuters that they are worried about being frozen that WFP is already receiving only half aid to Afghanistan, and that more than 60 million people “Just live on bread and tea tea.”.
According to the UN, WFP received $ 77 billion from the United States last year, which is 54 % of its financing.
Some NGOs (NGOs) are resorting to public donations to fund the shortage of frozen. The Freeland Foundation, the Anti -Smuggling Group in Bangkok, has launched a gofundme to get it through 90 days of frozen.
The group said, “Two days ago, the new Trump administration suddenly frozen all foreign aid, including our wildlife protection programs,” the group added, “The hunter and smugglers will not freeze their actions. Can our frontline teams continue for 90 days.
According to an agency source, the order to freeze the funds has put US Aid missions and their partners in chaos, many organizations are not sure that the staff is saving, selling assets like cars. To start doing or ask employees to take a free leave. The man said that USAID was forbidden to talk with the implementation partners, except that the funds were withheld.
Sources added, “These are the people with whom we work on a daily basis.” “We can’t talk to them more.”
Other agencies said they would not be affected by frozen. UN High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Matthew Saltmarsh said the agency did not receive a fund from USAID.
Media freedom activists say that independent media outlets that receive external funds in dictatorial governments can struggle to survive.
In Georgia, where the “law of foreign agents” passed last year set a penalty for NGOs who fail to announce more than 20 % of their funds from abroad, Georgian dreams Speaker of the ruling party’s parliament, Shalwa Papushville, welcomed US aid. Frozen
“I was pleasantly surprised when Trump’s executive order was based on the fact that international aid, in some cases, is used to ensure […] Georgian media has quoted them as saying that they are on the ground, including harming US interests.
Education, mines
According to an international campaign to ban mines, in 2023, the United States was the largest landman action donor with a total partnership of $ 310 million, which represents 39 % of all international assistance. Myanmar, Ukraine, Afghanistan and a Middle East country were among the countries where unclear mines claim most lives.
The State Department said on Sunday that a new tab opens, which should re -focus on US national interests in the role of taxpayer’s dollar steward.
“President Trump has clearly stated that the United States is no longer going to withdraw his eyes without returning to the American people. Observer and restoration by hard -working taxpayers are not just the right thing to do. This is a moral mandatory, it is a moral, “the State Department said.
The Teach for Ukraine’s Board Chair, Oxana Metiash, an NGO, who trains graduates and specialists as teachers to improve the education system, said that the panic in the NGO sector of Ukraine increased. Has been
“This is not just funding that is frozen. There are real people behind every grant who are working in unimaginable situations,” Matias wrote to LinkedIn.