Every day, the staff members at half a dozen medical clinics in Sudan do their rounds. They go crib to crib, connecting 100 babies on the brink of starvation with the IVs, oxygen, and emergency feeding they need to survive. They do that work as conflict spirals — and in a country that the U.S. government recently declared was home to a genocide.
But on Wednesday, the Trump administration terminated that program sustaining those efforts — despite having granted the Minnesota-based nonprofit Alight a waiver earlier this month to deliver lifesaving humanitarian assistance.
“We have anywhere between 15 and 30 infants and children in these stabilization centers at a time, and if they do not have care, within about a four to eight-hour period, they will die,” Jocelyn Wyatt, the chief executive officer of Alight, told Devex on Thursday.
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
