Helping is Not Criminal

Despite the supposed waiver availability for “lifesaving”

Program in a refugee camp funded by US foreign aid
(BPRM)

support, very few waivers have come through the US State Department for foreign aid. 

Rubio has doubled down on how wasteful, unAmerican and terrible humanitarian and development aid is. The administration has issued bald faced lies about what is has been distributed. Over 100 USAID staffers have been sacked.

Fight for All the People

Classroom I visited in rural Ethiopia, 2018

We are facing down the apocalypse. Today the administration attempted to cut all assistance (for things like Medicaid, school lunches, meals on wheels, education assistance) for vulnerable people he ostensibly has more reason to care about. If that's how the administration is willing to treat citizens (but for an emergency injunctive order because a consortium of States sued), what hope do vulnerable people in other countries have?  

90 Days is Too Long to Wait

Children in front of a tailor's shop in a refugee camp 

Four days after I returned home from the Chicago Marathon, I left for Chad. For

security reasons, I didn't post about my trip while I was there, and I won't be sharing specifics of where I visited. Anything I share in this post reflects my own views, and not that of any organization I have worked for or met with.