Global development organizations hoping to continue their work during a Trump administration that is trying to reshape foreign aid and slash funding must collaborate with each other to survive.
That’s the key message from Navyn Salem, the CEO of Edesia, a Rhode Island-based nonprofit producer of lifesaving foods for malnourished children. The organization has had 185,535 boxes of its products sitting in its warehouse for months because they’ve not yet managed to get clearance from the Trump administration to ship to countries that need them.
Salem is still working with the United States government to send those boxes abroad. But the bottom line, she says, is that “children can’t wait.”