After Aid Cuts, US Announces $2B for Christian Groups
by Emily Belz
The Trump administration named World Vision to lead a new Christian consortium that will support HIV treatment and disaster relief.
After making deep cuts in global health, food assistance, and other foreign aid based on allegations of fraud and abuse in USAID, the Trump administration announced $2 billion in humanitarian-aid funding for faith-based groups, with a consortium of US Christian organizations overseeing $1.4 billion.
World Vision will oversee one US-funded consortium providing health services and will co-lead another doing disaster relief with Compassion International and the Accord Network. Samaritan’s Purse has a separate $300 million award over two years for natural disaster response and other humanitarian responses to “protracted emergencies,” according to a State Department email to CT. Another pot of $570 million in funding will go to local faith-based hospitals and clinics through countries’ own infrastructure.