Since the United States announced a freeze on all the U.S. Agency for International Development funding on Jan. 24, much of the aid sector has been left paralyzed, with food rotting in warehouses, vital medicine going undelivered, and aid camps falling into chaos.
Right now, the most high-profile fight over USAID is happening in the courts. NGOs and contractors are fighting to get paid for the work they have done, and employees are fighting mass terminations that have cost thousands of jobs.
But on the ground, the lack of funding is costing lives and shuttering entire programs.