Thank you for Kathleen Walker’s excellent piece on the work of US AID. I too was a Peace Corps Volunteer, but in West Africa. Foreign aid in some of the poorest parts of the world works to not only save lives but to help the countries to become more self-sufficient. The Niger Resilience and Agribusiness Masters Program is a perfect example of helping one of the world’s poorest countries be able to feed itself and develop viable systems for agricultural sustainability.
And does it not make sense to spread goodwill and give the U.S. a good name? I remember riding in the back of a truck in southern Niger, sitting on top of bags of grain with a U.S. emblem and “A gift of the United States of America” printed on them.The Trump/Musk chainsaw approach to eliminating vital USAID programs is unconscionable.
Peter Bourque
Midtown
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