“WE ARE GOING TO STARVE”
There are 379 households – more than 1,800 people – living in the Waingmaw Lisu Baptist Association camp, which has been supported by WFP since July, according to Le Tarr, a community organiser among its residents.
“After we heard the WFP announcement, all the people in the camp are depressed and are having trouble sleeping,” he said.
“Without food and supplies, we are going to starve. After we heard this announcement, we felt hopeless.”
Trump has presented the cuts as part of his campaign to undo bloated government spending.
But USAID accounted for only between 0.7 per cent and 1.4 per cent of total US government spending in the last quarter century, according to the Pew Research Center.
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews on Monday said the United States’ “sudden, chaotic withdrawal of support” was having a “crushing impact” on people in the country.
“The abrupt termination of this support is going to kill them,” he told a press conference in Geneva.
