{"id":153496,"date":"2025-03-10T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/?post_type=news&#038;p=153496"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:10:14","slug":"unrest-and-distress-grow-after-us-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/latest-news\/news\/unrest-and-distress-grow-after-us-funding-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrest and distress grow after US funding cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"block-hero full-width id-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/B-HD_kakuma-1.jpg');\">\n\n\t<div class=\"bg-mobile\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/B-HD_kakuma-1-1024x683.jpg');\"><\/div>\n\n\t\n\t<div class=\"curtain\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner-blocks entry-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Unrest and anxiety grow among those whose futures and lives are now at risk after US funding cuts<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-ingress\">The termination of US-funded programmes has caused growing desperation among refugee populations. Fears of increasing unrest, suicide rates, school dropouts and teenage pregnancies are among the swathe of consequences that FCA\u2019s field staff witness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\"><strong>EVENTS HAVE<\/strong> unfolded rapidly since the US State Department informed Finn Church Aid (FCA) of the termination of 6.95 million USD of funding in Uganda and Kenya \u2013 part of a decision that abruptly terminated 10,000 foreign assistance contracts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA was forced to stop its work overnight after the US froze its funding on January 24th. Now, with the final decision from the US government to terminate the funding with immediate effect on February 27th, the dire consequences are already impacting the most vulnerable people, who are cut off from critical support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the hardest tasks for FCA staff is communicating the loss of these essential services to communities in both countries, where 209,000 schoolchildren risk losing their education directly due to US cuts to FCA funding. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">US-funded work in refugee areas ended overnight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In FCA\u2019s programmes, schools and related services have been ordered to stop work since the initial order to freeze funding was received. Since then, 206 teachers and school staff have lost or are at risk of losing their jobs, and the growing class sizes of hundreds of students overburden those continuing their work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enormous mental distress is already evident in people who are suddenly left on their own, FCA staff report. Yet other services such as FCA\u2019s mental health and psychosocial support for children, youth, and teachers dealing with trauma have also been cut.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is about their survival and future, and the situation is deteriorating daily. Our internal funds have run out and we need urgent support to keep children in schools\u201d, says <strong>John Bongei<\/strong>, FCA\u2019s Country Director in Kenya.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_VisittoKakuma-Kalobeyei-179.jpg\" alt=\"Mies katsoo kameraan. Miehen takana seisoo lapsi. Taustalla n\u00e4kyy my\u00f6s rakennus ja sen luona kauempana seisovia ihmisi\u00e4. \n\nA man looks into the camera. A child is standing behind the man. A building and people standing near it in the distance can also be seen in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-153483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_VisittoKakuma-Kalobeyei-179.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_VisittoKakuma-Kalobeyei-179-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_VisittoKakuma-Kalobeyei-179-267x178.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Bongei, FCA Kenya Country Director, is concerned about the consequences of the sudden cutoff of funding in the Kakuma-Kalobeyei refugee area. <em>Photo: Bj\u00f6rn Udd \/ FCA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FCA faces similar challenges in Uganda. The termination of US funding will also directly wipe out the gains in education access for girls and their transition to secondary school, says FCA\u2019s Country Director Wycliffe Nsheka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda was still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced schools to close for two years. To further compound this, the termination of grants comes at an increasingly difficult time, especially with increasing new refugee arrivals escaping the current ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and immediate threats from the Ebola and MPox viruses in Uganda especially.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_WycliffeNsheka1.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit looks at the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-153486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_WycliffeNsheka1.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_WycliffeNsheka1-119x178.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">According to Wycliffe Nsheka, FCA Uganda Country Director,  important work done, like enabling girls to attend school, is in danger of being wasted. <em>Photo: FCA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cRefugees have seen a reduction in provision of all services as a result of the US funding freeze. Usually, we witness suicide cases in such a situation as some people in their desperation may decide to take their own lives. We are heading towards that\u201d, says Nsheka.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suicide rates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/news\/news-releases\/covid-19-poses-major-threat-life-and-welfare-refugees-uganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than doubled<\/a> in Uganda\u2019s refugee settlements in 2020, during the first year of the pandemic. Refugee settlements also saw a drastic increase in gender-based violence and teenage pregnancies, which also led to school dropouts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the funding cuts take immediate effect, it will take time to actually realise all the actions. While the funding cuts that will force FCA to close its field offices in Moyo and Obongi in the north of Uganda are immediate, FCA will keep the field offices operational until May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a rights-based organisation, we cannot abandon our accountability to the affected populations and have to do what we can to mitigate the consequences, which are nothing less than devastating\u201d, says FCA Uganda Country Director Wycliffe Nsheka.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">International aid work in unprecedented transition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA\u2019s Executive Director <strong>Tomi J\u00e4rvinen<\/strong> emphasises that we are witnessing an unprecedented change in the aid sector, which will plunge people into poverty, ignite conflicts and cost lives. A <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/03\/politics\/usaid-official-leave-memo\/index.html#:~:text=He%20projected%20there%20would%20be,to%20the%20US%20per%20year.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaked USAID memo<\/a> estimates that malaria cases will increase by up to 17.9 million, USD and a million malnourished children will lose their treatment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also according to the memo, suspending maternal and child health programs could cause tens of millions of pregnant women, newborns and children to lose access to lifesaving care. A suspension of nutrition services could result in 1 million children not being treated annually for severe acute malnutrition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dThis is about human lives, people whose lives and future are dependent on the support they receive\u201d, says J\u00e4rvinen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every time children and young people are forced to interrupt their education, whether it is due to war and refugee status or because an existing opportunity to attend school is taken away on a whim by cutting off funding, it is a serious crisis for the future of them and their communities.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_TomiJarvinen-2023-04.jpg\" alt=\"Mies katsoo kameraan. \nA man looks at the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-153490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_TomiJarvinen-2023-04.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_TomiJarvinen-2023-04-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/C-_TomiJarvinen-2023-04-267x178.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tomi J\u00e4rvinen, FCA Executive Director, says sudden US funding cuts are affecting the lives of real people, who are already in vulnerable positions. <em>Photo: Antti Yrj\u00f6nen\/FCA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Although unprecedented, it is not the first time a global disaster has hit hard on the most vulnerable people in so many places simultaneously.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlready during the Covid-19 pandemic, we saw the ripple effects of a major service disruption, with the loss of lives and consequences like mental health issues, school closures, teenage pregnancies and early marriage. Now we are witnessing it again, the main difference being that it is someone\u2019s conscious decision\u201d, says J\u00e4rvinen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will not give up on the people we work to serve, but we will need all the donor support that we can get.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-ingress\">You can support FCA\u2019s work by donating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>For further information contact:&nbsp;:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA Executive Director Tomi J\u00e4rvinen&nbsp;<br>tomi.jarvinen@kua.fi, +358 40 641 8209.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA Kenya Country Director John Bongei&nbsp;<br>John.Bongei@kua.fi, +254 73 374 8355&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA Uganda Country Director Wycliffe Nsheka&nbsp;<br>Wycliffe.Nsheka@kua.fi, +256 77 296 1551&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA Manager of International Communications Ruth Owen&nbsp;<br>Ruth.Owen@kua.fi, +358 50 409 7848&nbsp;<br><br><strong>You can find pictures for <a href=\"https:\/\/kirkonulkomaanapu.materialbank.net\/ui\/shares\/w20683953\/p1470Nwa2kc\/en\/workspaces\/20683953\">media use here.<\/a><\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unrest and anxiety grow among those whose futures and lives are now at risk after US funding cuts The termination of US-funded programmes has caused growing desperation among refugee populations. 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