Trump’s USAID reduces the threatening program to empower women for whom she advocated her daughter Ivanka

President Trump and Elon Musk Attempting to abolish the decade of the old USAID agency They are likely to end millions of dollars in American financing intended for economic empowerment of women around the world, including programs that have been advocated during the first term of Mr. Trump during the first term of Mr. Trump.

While the offer of Mr. Trump that almost all the workers of the agency puts on leave Currently tied In the American Battle, a break Ordered by State Secretary Marco Rubio At the end of January on all new US programs for foreign assistance funded by State Department and USAID Remains in place.

The women’s initiative for global development and prosperity was intended to help 50 million women “to achieve their economic potential” by 2025, which the President’s daughter called at the time a key area where the Republicans and Democrats could find a common basis.

Lillian Achu was the project manager for Afchix, a network for women in technology, which was part of the USAID -ve Women Connect Challenge. In 2019, she was invited to the White House to meet Ivanka Trump, who was then her father’s advisor, and attended the announcement of the W-GDP.

To match the launch, Ivanka Trump wrote Wall Street Journal, who said that W-GDP, “For the first time, will coordinate the dedication of America to one of the most resources in the world in the development of the development, the ambition and the genius of women.”

Achu was one of the nine scholarships invited to the White House, where President Trump signed a memorandum in the oval house on February 7, 2019. The administration of Mr. Trump pledged $ 50 million W-GDP-Ku will assign USAID.

Achu told CBS News on Monday that, although the president, he gave supporting comments about the initiative, Ivanka “was someone who really cared”, saying that the president’s daughter seemed truly worried about the development of women and economic empowerment.

“I could see that she really loves stories about our success, stories about how women affect communities around the world,” Achu said.

First Trump administration later said The program reached 12 million women in the first year. The Bidana Administration continued the W-GDP operation in accordance with the gender and equality and equality fund, which invested $ 300 million in direct resources and another $ 200 million in indirectly financing between 2021 and 2023, according to documents USAIDs provided by CBS News.

Ivanka Trump did not immediately respond to the CBS News request for comment on the program or reducing USAID funding.

The State Department spokesman, he asked the W-GDP program, noted CBS News Rubio Rubio Rubio foreign assistance program, “to ensure that they are effective and in accordance with US foreign policy in accordance with the US first program.”

The spokesman said that the department was “thoughtfully inspected all the renunciations that have filed” various programs and staff in an effort to maintain help and said the results would be “transparent”.

One of the one focus The W-GDP program was a female approach to technology, which continues to lag behind men globally. According to the documents of the White House from time, more than 1.7 billion women in low and medium and medium -grade women did not own a mobile phone, and it was far less likely to use a mobile internet.

Rural communities in Africa are less able to access new and new technologies, Ach explained, because of the cost of the Internet and the device, but also because many people, medicine, education and food accounts remained priorities.

In northern Uganda, where the distribution of HIV among women and children was historically greater than in other parts of the country, additional Financing USAIDs provided through assistance programs, Pepfarenabled communities access to liquid supplies of antiretroviral drugs. Such support is limited from the Government of Uganda for restrained finances, Achu said.

“USAID really treated those in the community as their friend,” she said. “Like their number one friend, I would say, because they visited them, they gave them support, not only to support them with medical institutions and approaches to medicine, but also joined the economic strengthening.”

The USAID funding was also consistent and reliable, unlike some other programs, and the exclusion of programs funded by the Agency, Achu said, will affect more than a women’s approach to technology.

“The ability of the whole community to move out of poverty will really slow down or endanger,” she told CBS News.