Posted on 12/17/2025 5:59:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
UKHIYA, Bangladesh (AP) — In moments when she is alone, when there is a break in the beatings from her husband, the girl cries for the school that was once her place of peace in a world that has otherwise offered her none.
Ever since the military in her homeland of Myanmar killed her father in 2017, forcing her to flee to neighboring Bangladesh with her mother and little sisters, the school had protected Hasina from the predators who prowl her refugee camp, home to 1.2 million members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority.
One day in June, when Hasina was 16 years old, her teacher announced that the school’s funding had been taken away. The school was closing. In a blink, Hasina’s education was over, and so, too, was her childhood.
The sudden and severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of the camps’ schools and youth training centers and crippled child protection programs. Beyond unwanted marriages, scores of children as young as 10 were forced into backbreaking manual labor, and girls as young as 12 forced into prostitution. With no safe space to play or learn, children were left to wander the labyrinthine camps, making them increasingly easy targets for kidnappers. And the young and desperate were picked off by traffickers who promised to restore what the children had lost: Hope.
Life has always been dangerous for the 600,000 children languishing in these chaotic, overcrowded camps, where a squalid jumble of bamboo and tarpaulin shelters are jammed onto landslide-prone hills. But Trump’s decision in January to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development has made it even more so, the AP found in interviews with 37 children, family members, teachers, community leaders and aid workers.
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I am sorry but I missed the memo where AMERICA is the only country that has something called MONEY.
Why don’t rich moslem countries provide foreign aid?
Send birth control.
Hilarious choice of sob story by the anti-American TDS editors at AP. I don’t care. We can’t solve every problem.
“Though the U.S. spent just 1% of its budget on foreign aid, Trump dubbed USAID wasteful and shut it down, a move that has proven catastrophic for the world’s most vulnerable.”
Perhaps if 98% of USAID’s money wasn’t being used to start wars and cause mass killings, USAID would still be in business today.
I say "Bravo, President Trump!!!!"
Send the friggin’ UN third worlders a very sternly worded letter advising them to get with the program or get the hell out. American taxpayers won’t be paying for everything anymore.
Any county that needs American foreign aid to survive probably shouldn't be a country in the first place.
America’s decency and generosity was weaponized to bring it down.
Rohingya are Burma’s Muslim minority.
Why the Saudis, Kuwaitis and UAE do not take care about their fellow muslims in need?
Maybe we should ask why this is?
WE have our own problems WE need to resolve.
They the rich gulf muslims save them.
Cheapskates.
The UN has a UNICEF children’s fund specifically setup to help these children. Oh the money is gone? Stolen by many pig bureaucrats? Well start there.
USAID was proved to be a leftist NGO funding source.
Pretty much exclusively.
It reminds me, Burma is a mees, in state of permanent civil war, all kind of people are suffering there.
Why are Rohingya so special that they need special care?
And, for our Socialist friends, Burma is yet another example of failed Socialist state.
Let Bernie Sanders, AOC and Mamdani chip in to help fellow socialists!
Rich Muslim countries provide foreign aid — but usually for the promotion of Islam and terrorism.
In a Darwinian world, the Rohingya are unfit.
That is, the strongest survive, the weak perish.
All of these liberals should take 1% of their paycheck every week and send it over there. You'll hear howling. Liberals have been studied and found to give far less to charity than conservatives, who want to choose which causes to support, such as their local places of worship. Liberals want the government to just tax everyone and do whatever it likes, such as sending LGBTQ+ workshops to poor countries.
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