President Trump and Elon Musk Attempted hose-old USAID agency It is likely to complete millions of dollars in American financing designed for economic empowerment of women around the world, including programs that are the first relatives of Mr. Trump who first fried by his daughter Ivanka.
While Mr. Trump’s greeting is to put almost all the workers of the agency on leave currently bound In the American Court of Battle, Pause Ordered by State Secretary Marco Rubio At the end of January at all new American foreign assistance programs funded by State Department and USAID remains in place.
Women’s and prosperity of women is intended for helping 50 million women “realize their economic potential” by 2025. year, the question that the presidential daughter invited in the time of the crucial area and the Republicans and Democrats could find common ground.
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Lillian Accom was the project manager for AFCHIX, a network for women in technology, it was part of USAID women connecting challenges. In 2019, he was invited to the White House to meet Ivanka Trump, which was then adviser to her father and attended W-GDP announcement.
To match the launch, Ivanka Trump wrote Wall Street Journal Op-Ed in which W-GDP would, “the first time coordinated America’s commitment to one of the world’s most well-developed resources – talent, ambition and ingenious female.”
Achom was one of nine gridaks who were invited to the White House, where President Trump in the oval house signed 19. February 2019. Years. Mr. Trump Administration has pledged $ 50 million to W-GDP – which will be assigned to USAID.
Achh told the news of the CBS on Monday that the president presented comments on the initiative, Ivanka, “was someone who really worried,” said the presidential daughter seemed honestly concerned about the development of women and economic empowerment.
“I could see that she really likes stories about our success, stories about how women affect communities around the world,” Achom said.
First trump administration later told The program reached 12 million women in the first year. Bidena administration continued W-GDP’s work to the Gender Equality and Equality Fund, which invested $ 300 million of direct resources between the indirect funds between 2021. and 2023, according to USAID documents.
Ivanka Trump did not immediately answer the request for the CBS news request for a comment on the program or reducing USAID funding.
The State Department spokesman who asked about the W-GDP program, noted in the news of the CBS Rubio Overview of foreign programs, “to ensure that they are effective and in accordance with the American external policy under America first agenda.”
The spokesman said that the Department “emptied all the disclaimer of various programs and staff on offer to keep help, and they said the results will be transmission” transparently. “
One of focuses From the W-GDP program, there was a women’s approach to technology, which is still lagging behind him on a global scale. According to White House from time, more than 1.7 billion women in low and medium-sized income countries did not possess a mobile phone, and they were far less likely to use mobile internet.
Rural communities in Africa are less able to access new and in the emerging technologies, he explained to Achh, due to the cost of the Internet and the device, but also for many people, medical accounts, education and food remain priorities.
In northern Uganda, where the prevalence of HIV among women and children was historically higher than in other parts of the country, additional USAID funds provided through a help program, PepfarHe has given communities access to current stocks of antiretroviral drugs. Such support is limited from the own government of Uganda for its restrained finances, told Ach.
“USAID really referred to those in the community like their friend,” she said. “Like their friend, I should say, because they visited them, they gave them grants, not only supported by medical facilities and access to medical institutions, but to access economic empowerment.”
USAID financing was also consistent and reliably, unlike some other programs, and the abolition of agency funded programs, Achom said, affects more than women’s access to technology.
“The ability to move out of poverty will really slow or endangered,” she said the news of CBS.
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