Foreign aid is a beacon of hope. When aid is cut, children's lives are at risk
- Less than 1% of the U.S. federal budget goes towards foreign aid, and it creates profound impact.
- Today, 1 in 11 children globally already need lifesaving humanitarian assistance.
- Our lifesaving work must continue so we can help children survive. But we cannot do this alone.
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Foreign aid helps our economy.
Investment in health, education and infrastructure reduces the risk of future humanitarian crises that could require more interventions. Cutting aid will lead to greater financial challenges in the future.
Foreign aid keeps us all healthy.
Viruses don’t recognize borders. Foreign aid helps stop diseases from spreading, including HIV/AIDS, Ebola, polio, tuberculosis and more.
Foreign aid makes us all safer.
Cutting aid makes the world less safe. Poverty, conflict, and climate disasters don’t stay contained. They lead to displaced people, instability and threats to world peace.
What Programs Are at Risk When Foreign Aid Is Cut?
Foreign aid allows Save the Children to work with our partners to deliver lifesaving programs around the world so that children grow up healthy, educated and safe. Beyond meeting children’s most urgent needs in a crisis, foreign aid provides medical assistance, keeps children in school, and protects them from abuse and harm.
When aid is cut, it sends shockwaves around the world, disrupting economies, eroding long-won progress for children and communities. Over 40 countries have been impacted across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
In the DRC, hundreds of thousands of people will stop being treated for diseases like mpox and cholera.
In another country, 146,000 children under five and 86,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are at risk of not accessing vital nutrition services.
In Latin America, every day, over 2,000 children will be denied access to food, education and other fundamental rights.
In another country, our polio immunization project will grind to a halt, undoing years of work to eradicate the infection and risking the spread of deadly disease.
In another country, 320,000 people are being denied the urgent food they need. $4.5million of food aid is stuck in warehouses.
In another country, 225,000 pregnant women and over 2,000 children under two face increased risk of malnutrition and disease since the foreign aid cuts.
Your Support Can Help Humanitarian Aid Organizations, like Save the Children
Children need your support to fill the enormous funding gaps in foreign aid that threaten their survival.
Throughout Save the Children’s history, we’ve risen to new challenges. Strengthened by your support, we’re resilient and determined to do whatever it takes for children in the United States and around the world. That’s why now, more than ever, it is our collective responsibility to step up. We owe children a brighter future than they are facing now.
