Posted on 04/19/2025 3:20:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
USAID funding cuts have had a devastating impact on Irish aid agencies working in developing countries, according to documents seen by RTÉ News.
The documents also reveal the cloud of uncertainty that has overshadowed Irish non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the days and weeks following US President Donald Trump’s executive order to freeze and terminate foreign aid funding. […]
Hundreds of redundancies have been reported across the Irish aid agency sector and development projects in countries such as Sierra Leone, Somalia and Syria have been significantly affected.
GOAL and Concern were the largest recipients of US government funding, with annual income of €103 million and €58.3 million from USAID respectively. Trócaire received €1.38m from USAID and Self Help Africa received €308,000.
According to the documents, GOAL’s Turkey-Syria program was most impacted as 85% of it is funded by USAID.
Trócaire had USAID grants in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Honduras and Malawi, and the largest impacts have been felt by several of their local partners, some of whom are up to 80% funded by USAID or UN programs funded by USAID.
As a result of the funding freeze, Self Help Africa decided to pull its services out of three African countries by the end of the year.
Concern confirmed that it has lost over €20 million in funding from the US government. …
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Thanks Liz. BTTT!
Why were we funding other countries internal affairs? STOP the nonsense!
Irish NGOs used in the Islamic invasion of Ireland
Good! Irish NGOs whining their USAID gravy train is cut off. How much trickled out to the Africans? 1%? 2%?
And all it did was continue the cycle of dependence.
The worldwide Left has been wrapping pretty names and PR in "nice" words which ultimately are lies.
Years ago, an African politician said "leave us alone. We'll help ourselves." How can Africa progress when its farmers cannot compete with "free?"
Self Help Africa pretends to "support" farmers, while pushing climate change politics and publishing lots of picture of Africans from their offices in 4th Floor, Joyce's Court, 38 Talbot Street, Dublin 1 Ireland. The REAL message? Send money. Send money. Send money to our Irish organization to pay our employees well.
It seems like ALL funding for ALL “NGOs” should immediately stop. Any further funding for such operations should be preceded by a 90-day waiting period, publication of the purpose and charter of the group getting the funding, a list of pay amounts to all staff, and approval by the President and public votes of both houses of congress.
The corruption by ALL “NGO”s is reaffirming that the US Citizen Taxpayers have been taken for chumps for many decades. This is criminal and a lot of NGO-related people (including those voting to fund them) should be investigated...and arrested. So many corrupt sociopathic criminals...so little time.
The same Irish NGO’s importing Muslims to destroy a formerly Christian culture?
“Self Help Africa” purports to “support” African farmers,
<><>but it pushes lefty stuff like climate change
<><>and furthers the deception
<><>publishing pics of Africans from its 4th Floor, Joyce’s Court, 38 Talbot St, Dublin offices
<><> The REAL message?
<><>Send money. Send money. Send money
<><>our Irish organization pays our employees well.
Nice find
We'll believe when we see it, don't you think?
The exposure of so much "legal" corruption is a godsend for this nation.
Irish = Boston = Massachusetts
The Irish went woke before the term woke was invented. They are further down the rabbit hole than the Brits
People without access to food get cash? Let them eat currency.
Additionally, close reading of the article shows, "...documents show a commitment from Irish officials that the Government would not pull its funding as the impact of cuts from United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Finland and France were felt."
So the "United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Finland and France" are pulling funding to Irish "charities?" There's something about the increasing costs of war planning in these European countries..... Maybe charity and defense and social welfare ALL should "being at home?"
Which echoes the "Self Help" part of the PR these NGOs pretend to support. Self help. Help yourself.
Juts don't "help yourself" to money from these United States and then put the word "Irish" on it.
What in the hell are we doing paying for Irish NGOs in AFrica? What in hell are they even doing there?
They have to tax Rosie O’Donnell more ,LOL
If the USAID money was going for salaries and overhead, the nominal recipients of aid will not be missing much. I wonder what the $$$ really went for — supporting leftists and gender activists in Ireland perhaps?
If all Trump got done was this ONE THING it is a major start on things.
We get some hits out of the park, some to 3rd base, 2nd or first. A few walks,
But if Trump has ONE STRIKE OUT, he is a loser to too many.
Folks, look at the hits. Trump is still playing the game and he ought to be exhausted, you and I would bge. Have some faith.
Oh noes! Defunding the Irish in Sierra Leone?
When will the crazy end?
I don’t understand why that antisemite obama worshiper Samantha Power is not already in prison. Same for John Brennan.
Maybe the Irish will find themselves some corrupt leftists Obama Judge to fix their cash flow problem for them. But lets not give them any ideas
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