Imagine seeing nearly a third of your annual global program budget vanish overnight. Save the Children was one of many organizations hit by a financial gut punch when the Trump administration ground all U.S. foreign assistance to a halt earlier this year.
So it went into rapid response mode, said Janti Soeripto, CEO of Save the Children US.
“Our biggest priority in that initial month was trying to figure out what is the lifesaving work that is terminated and that we have to continue so that no children die on our watch in the immediate term? So that is very clarifying when you have that front and center, because everything else almost falls away,” Soeripto said at Devex Impact House on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly.