Ahmad, a five -year -old Jordanian boy wants to be “stronger than Spiderman” when he grows up, but his dream clashes with the hard reality: he has a serious disability and the cut of American humanitarian aid left him without vital assistance.
Like Ahmad, millions of children in each continent, victims of war, global warming, poverty or serious diseases, suffer from the decision of US President Donald Trump.
Aquejo of a spinal deformation, Ahmad cannot maintain his erect torso and is paralyzed with his legs.
The child receives physiotherapy at the Oenegé Handicap International “to strengthen the upper limbs and allow him, later, walking with crutches,” said his father, Mahmoud Ibrahim Theeb Abdulrahman, a 30 -year -old worker.
The Oenegé had to provide him with the prostheses and prostheses to straighten his legs, he added, nothing he could obtain with his lean salary.
But now none of that will happen.
The Wehdat Rehabilitation Center, where they were in the capital Jordana Amán, was one of the first victims of Trump’s cuts.
More than 600 patients ran out of day for another.
There were prostheses designed for 30 children, in addition to wheelchairs, which will not be delivered by Washington orders.
“The movements they learned will be forgotten,” said Abdulá Hmoud, a physiotherapist that qualifies losses as “catastrophic.”
There is also emotional suffering.
When he learned that he could no longer see his physiotherapist, “Ahmad stopped eating three days. He didn’t want to get up,” his father said.
“I feel as if they wanted to kill me,” said the youngest about the closure of the rehabilitation center.
– World damage –
Ahmad’s case is one more among the horror stories of the humanitarian community since the United States announced the 83% cut of its assistance.
USAID, officially dismantled by Trump’s government, provided 42% of all worldwide with its budget of 42.8 billion dollars.
In a refugee camp in Bangladés where a million Rohinyás Muslims who fled the persecution in Burma, the Save the Children organization were housed to half the food rations for children.
The Oenegé fears that desperate families give their daughters to traffickers and send their sons to Malaysia in dangerous maritime crossings in search of work.
In Mozambique, Solidarites International had to close a program that gave food and water to internal displaced people, including tens of thousands of children.
A similar amount of minors in Malaui will stop receiving school foods, according to another Oenegé who asked to keep anonymity for fear of US reprisals.
Without food, many will leave school, which is even more outrageous because millions of food break down in the wineries for the US decision, according to the entity.
– Children, the most affected –
The first to suffer are women and girls, whose education is usually the first to be sacrificed.
The Norwegian council for refugees says that it must “significantly reduce” aid for women and girls in Afghanistan because the United States financed many of the female workers.
“Many women and girls will lose their last subsistence medium,” said Camilla Waszink, a director of the Oenegé.
Malnutrition already affects 150 million children under five years, and there is a risk of increasing.
“Millions of additional children will suffer truncated growth” and reduce brain capacity, said Kevin Goldberg, director of Solidarites International.
In an additional blow to children, Washington is expected to drastically reduce their financial support for vaccination in poor countries.
According to Sania Nishtar, director of the Alliance for Vaccines, in case of these cuts “about 1.3 million children will die of preventable diseases with vaccines.”
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