The Human Cost of DOGE's War on U.S.A.I.D.

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1. My brother was in charge of stations on the ground

in such places as Ghana, Senegal, Egypt, Madagascar and the like. We visited and got into the villages where he worked.
One program, in Madagascar, was designed to build and manage a prenatal and early postnatal volunteer program to improve infant mortality. A software company in Boston designed a boilerplate system where the locals could develop a tracking system of the infants. Very few homes had electricity never mind internet.
Once a week, someone would bring a replacement phone and bring the data back to 'Tana and charts built to keep track of patients.
It unified the community and gave pride to all the participants.
A lot more to this story, but let it suffice to say, this is part of the minutiae that some minds refuse to recognize as the keys to soft power.
The void is being filled by others, but to what degree of efficiency and effectiveness is yet to be seen.
But like so many other programs decimated by DOGE and the miscreants in the administration, the brain drain will not be rebuilt without some serious reconstruction that will take a generation.
We are living the bends as these people are pulling us up from the ocean faster than our bubbles.