US aid cuts leave food for millions moldering in storage

The Manila Times

US aid cuts leave food for millions moldering in storage  Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are moldering in warehouses around the world because of US aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. The food stocks have been stuck inside four US government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs, according to three people who previously worked at the US Agency for International Development and two sources from other aid organizations.  The warehouses, which are run by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), contain between 60,000 to 66,000 metric tons of food, sourced from American farmers and manufacturers, the five people said.  REUTERS / STRINGR . COM  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net  Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  Soundcloud: https://tmt.ph/soundcloud   #TheManilaTimes #tmtnews #usaid

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00:00What a wonderful, so the hundred, if I bring it in, it could get destroyed.

00:05It may or may not be needed, you don't know.

00:21Not running at all is 415 children per hour that will not get the life-saving food that we could make.

00:28And right now, as you're running basically half capacity, it equates to 200 children every hour that will not get this life-saving food.

00:37That has been paid for by the United States taxpayers.

00:58We are doing a great job.

01:00If you have a lot of money, it's going to be a great job.

01:05We are doing a great job.

01:07We are currently here.

01:09We have to break down the road.

01:11We are currently at the very bottom line.

01:14We are currently at the very beginning.

01:17the entire cycle of five lives

01:46life-saving intervention, which are aimed at, yes, reducing child mortality of under five

01:53has been completely impeded by this brutal cut of US ID funding.

02:16We were using US ID funding to procure. Now we cannot procure from anywhere because we

02:23don't have US ID funding. We had generous donors who gave us a small amount of money,

02:28which is very helpful. They are philanthropists. They gave us about £25,000. And within this,

02:34we were able to procure the same cartons of RETF, some cartons of RETF, and we distributed

02:39them at three health facilities in Sokoto, Kevi and Bauchi. So we are only now managing

02:46those procurements. And once they are finished, there is no way again we can continue providing

02:52this RETF because we don't have money to procure them.

02:56The USID is giving us the RETF and we are really happy and appreciate the way that we

03:03handle the fashion. Most of them, they are recovered and we really appreciate the way how do they

03:11give us and handle it in the facility. But now we don't have it. We pray maybe someone or

03:22any partners to come and support us because still now we have a lot of that cases of malnutrition.

03:52people.

03:53People.

03:54People.

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