Humanitarian aid food rots after closing agency in the USA

Part of the food was considered unusable. According to the Washington Post, at least three recent remittances of nutritional supplements were marked for destruction. “These foods were bought by US taxpayers to save lives, not to rot in deposits or be incinerated,” Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the main democrat in the Senate Foreign Relations Commission, said.

Employees warned of the salary of food. In recent months, career servers have warned that more than 1,000 tons of energy cookies stored in Dubai (part of them originally intended for Gaza) would expire between July and September.

Reports indicate that the alerts have been ignored. According to employees, the initial requests sent to Jeremy Lewin, then responsible for the State Department’s external assistance office, received no response.

There was a huge effort from the career team to get your attention and get approval for various distribution plans, especially in Sudan. If it was incompetence, there is really no excuse, because everything was ready for him just sign
Sarah Charles, former head of the Usaid Humanitarian Assistance Department

The State Department tries to resume the shipments. An internal memorandum obtained by the newspaper reported that 13,719 tons of products about to win would be released. Another 47,991 tons remain stored for “program management and implementation”.

Help can still take months to destination. “For severely malnourished children, up to a week without food is already too much,” said Kathrin Lauer, a former USAID employee who had his contract ended this year.