Pcurical fighting workers have warned of a “disaster” that will lead to “killing children”, as a result of stopping American assistance and deducting development budgets in many countries.
“We have never faced a similar catastrophe, we recorded the cancellation of many orders,” said Adlin Leskin, director of the French company “Nutrice”, which produces “Blambei Nat”, a ready -made therapeutic food for use to treat severe severe malnutrition.
Humanitarian workers know very well the “Blamby Nat” food with its 92 grams small and white bags, which contains supported milk dough and microscopic nutrients that provide 500 calories.
The Blamebi Nat bags, which since 1999, have proven effective in combating malnutrition, and were allowed, according to MSF, to increase the number of children treated due to malnutrition from 100,000 at the beginning of the millennium to 9 million children today.
Nutrice sells its United Nations products, NGOs and Governments, representing 50% of the global treatment for ready -made therapeutic food for use.
But with President Donald Trump dismantling the American Agency for International Development (USD), this progress has been in danger, as Washington was the first donor of the World Food Program (33% in 2023) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 15%). She also secured 16% of the funding of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and 14% of the Funding of the World Health Organization.
Adlin Leskan said that with the dismantling of the sudden “US ID” agency “our sales declined and it was not possible to drain some stored products” because customers “no longer have enough money to buy it.”
Decisions of NGOs
Among the relevant organizations is UNICEF, which is about to run out of these therapeutic foods in their hands, in the absence of any new financing.
The United Nations agency warned that more than 2.4 million children suffer from acute malnutrition may be deprived of therapeutic food by the end of 2025.
UNICEF said in a statement that about 2,300 centers provide basic care for children who suffer from severe wasting and medical complications, “facing the risk of closing or reducing their services significantly”, in addition to about 28 thousand mobile treatment centers “dedicated to treating malnutrition.” This situation is reflected in NGOs.
Lea Fulé, media official in the “Work Against Hunger”, explained that the supplies of Blamby Nat food “mainly undertaken by UNICEF in our activities,” noting that “American funds represented more than 30% of our total financing.”
During the year 2023, the Organization Network was guaranteed by about 229,000 children under the fifth suffering of severe malnutrition.
But the official added: “We can no longer practically not receive” who reach or sponsor health centers.