To the editor: My father, Charles Green, lived in Malibu from 1985 until his death at 93 in 2011. For more than two decades before moving to Malibu, he lived abroad working for the United States agency for international development or USAID . (“Trump and Musk paralyzed our most important global aid agency. The consequences are gloomy”, opinion, February 7)
It served in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Vietnam, Indonesia and Liberia. In these countries, he provided professional development for educational teachers and administrators, built new schools, a modernized curricul .
Workers like him are that they constitute what Elon Musk called a “criminal” organization.
I understand that most people will not know what we are losing if Usaid remains closed, but there is only a small list here: programs to improve educational results and access, medical treatment, vaccine delivery, prevention and containment of diseases, and food and shelter for those displaced by war or natural disasters.
In addition to being with a heart to see the vilipendio of an organization that my father helped to build, we should not lose sight of how Usaid's destruction is also crushing our Constitution. We cannot let the unleashed billionaires take away the power of Congress.
Marilyn Green, Malibu
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To the editor: I have lived and worked in the developing world and I have seen firsthand the benefits of American foreign aid supplied by USAID.
I was a volunteer of the peace body in Chad and Malawi. When I was a child in the 1960s, my father taught in the Polytechnic of the University of Malawi, which was built and partly attended by Usaid.
Now I have seen our country generous become cruel and wrong. It is sad to see.
Fred Barker, Burbank
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To the editor: I can't see a recent Musk televised news client proudly carrying one of his children on his shoulders while moving around the corridors of the Capitol of our country.
But with his illegal and shameful attempt to close Usaid, musk now carries on his shoulders the skeletal bodies of children around the world.
How proud is now, Mr. Musk? And how proud your children will be when you realize the degree of cruelty that you are capable of?
Mary Proteau, Los Angeles
