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    'God Bless America' and the death of 10,000 projects

    Over the last 48 hours, thousands of programs have been terminated — many of which had already been granted waivers to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid.

    By Elissa Miolene // 28 February 2025

    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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