For more than 50 years, FHI 360 has reached thousands across the world. In Ethiopia, that has meant treating children suffering from malnutrition; in Ukraine, that’s meant bringing mobile medical clinics to communities with bombed-out hospitals.
Those programs were funded by USAID, the agency which, three weeks ago, was the largest bilateral donor in the world. But over the last three weeks, USAID has been brought to pieces. And day by day, its partners have gone down with it.
FHI 360 is just one of countless organizations to be hit, furloughing 36% of its staff — including 200 in its North Carolina headquarters — last week alone.