A plant that makes peanut butter paste for severely malnourished children got contract termination letters from USAID yesterday.
MANA's CEO tells me he has 400,000 boxes for USAID sitting in his warehouse; he's ordered workers to stop using USAID labels.
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MANA's CEO tells me he has 400,000 boxes for USAID sitting in his warehouse; he's ordered workers to stop using USAID labels.
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“Every one of those packets has printing on it that says, ‘From the American people. USAID.’ And if… I don’t deliver it through USAID contracts, it’s trash. I can’t distribute it."
On top of that, MANA was already waiting on millions of $ in reimbursements from USAID.
On top of that, MANA was already waiting on millions of $ in reimbursements from USAID.
Adding to the chaos -- it's been impossible for Moore to get answers because the USAID contract officer who *was* his point of contact has been put on administrative leave.
“He called me from his personal cell,” Moore said. “He was just stunned.”
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“He called me from his personal cell,” Moore said. “He was just stunned.”
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It's more than the production of life-saving foods that's in danger.
A recently laid off USAID nutrition adviser told me:
“It will just mean that kids’ programs don’t exist; the children don’t even get identified as malnourished, and they’ll die at home and we won’t know."
A recently laid off USAID nutrition adviser told me:
“It will just mean that kids’ programs don’t exist; the children don’t even get identified as malnourished, and they’ll die at home and we won’t know."
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