SILENT CUTS. The World Without USAID
In February 2025, the United States dismantled USAID, the United States Agency for International Development - a 60-year-old humanitarian lifeline for the rest of the world - in a matter of days. What began as shocking headlines soon became a 'silent cut' felt by the world's most vulnerable.
Research now shows that without USAID, 14 million people-including 4.5 million children under the age of 5 -will die by 2030. And these are preventable deaths.
Exactly one year later, the fallout is no longer a prediction; it is a harrowing reality. Silent Cuts: The World Without USAID, is a permanent record of that disappearance.
Tara Annie Kurian offers a vital, continent-by-continent account of the collapse, referencing hundreds of reports written by field experts and journalists who witnessed the devastation firsthand.
From starving children in Myanmar camps and child brides in Afghanistan to the famine in Sudan and the democracy crisis in Eastern Europe, these pages capture the human cost of a world without a safety net. As Congress debates the future of international aid, this book highlights the human stories that remind us why caring about lives beyond our borders still matters.
This book was brought to life by a Kickstarter campaign that was 132% crowdfunded by supporters who wanted to preserve this vital record of institutional disappearance.Customer Reviews
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