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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

‘The urgency of it was pretty terrifying’: the Australian charities grappling with Trump’s foreign aid freeze a year on

Workers unload Australian aid supplies to flood victims in Timor-Leste in 2021
Workers unload Australian aid supplies after floods in Timor-Leste in 2021. Donald Trump has slashed USAID funding since returning to office a year ago. Photograph: Antonio Dasiparu/EPA

About a year ago, the Trump administration abruptly withdrew funding from an Australian project feeding and educating tens of thousands of schoolchildren in Timor-Leste.

Almost half the children under five in the country – which has a population of about 1.4 million, with about 157,000 under five – are stunted due to malnutrition.

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