The new Administration’s move to shutter U.S.A.I.D. has halted vital aid programs around the world and left thousands of development workers in a state of limbo.

J ames Akot has three goats. He shares them with his wife, his mother, three younger siblings, and two of his cousin's children, in a household in Northern Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan. The crops Akot's family planted were washed away in the floods last year, the fourth and worst flood in the region in four consecutive years.

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned President Donald Trump against cutting foreign aid programs, saying when Britain took similar actions, it had been a “big strategic mistake.”The Trump administration is pursuing an overhaul of USAID,