{"id":11793,"date":"2025-04-15T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/?p=11793"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:30:29","slug":"togetherwelead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resultscanada.ca\/fr\/togetherwelead\/","title":{"rendered":"March CTA: #TogetherWeLead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThe future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.\u201d <\/p>

- <\/span>Gloria Steinem, American feminist, journalist, and activist
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Recent executive orders<\/a> signed in the United States to freeze all activities of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)\u202f\u2013 with the exception of provision for some urgent humanitarian assistance \u2013 is sowing chaos, threatening livelihoods, and jeopardizing decades of progress toward the eradication of extreme poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a small hospital in rural Burundi<\/a>, for instance, warehouses of food were locked, and medical supplies vanished without warning. American doctor Jennifer Furin is fighting to save malnourished children with dwindling supplies of therapeutic food. She has the impossible and unacceptable task of choosing who gets to eat and who does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ask:<\/strong> We call on the government of Canada to sustain and increase the International Assistance Envelope in 2025 to solidify global leadership and address the ongoing global gaps in immunization, nutrition, and education worldwide to ensure a more stable, equitable, and prosperous world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The United States is the largest funder of international assistance programming in the world, with USAID providing assistance to about 130 countries, including 42% of all global health funding<\/a> worldwide. The rollback of funding has created an enormous vacuum with critical personnel, infrastructure, programming, and partnerships ending abruptly.<\/p>\n\n\n

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President Trump’s orders have: <\/p>\n