One Year Later: Braving Unemployment; Jobless doesn't mean Useless!
A couple of years back, we had Donald Trump elected back into the White House after a 4 year interruption of what he had believed would be a 2 term Presidency of the USA. He had promised that he would cut down or completely eliminate aid that the US government had been known for all over the world. . President Donald Trump of the USA Many of us in the humanitarian and development agencies had assumed that this would take quite some time to actualize. We were mostly wrong and majority of the INGO staff who relied on USAID funding were caught flat footed by how hard and fast the closure came down at us and the communities we served. First came the Stop Word Order in the start of 2025 that was followed by program closeouts in quick succession and before long; thousands of careers went down. Millions of beneficiaries and program participants in donor funder interventions were left bare and exposed in a flash. At ...
