On Wednesday CARE announced its decision to turn down $45 million worth of Federal Funds for Food AID.
Read the NY Times story.
At IDEX we applaud CARE for its brave and principled rejection of millions of dollars in government food aid. It is exactly because of these sorts of conflict of interest, in this case, between a government beholden to agribusiness lobbies and poor communities abroad struggling with a glut of subsidized American commodities, that some overseas aid agencies, including IDEX, have decided not to receive funds from government-sponsored programs. Instead, we rely on donations provided by thousands of generous individual citizens which, though harder to raise, come without any agenda beyond a sincere desire to end poverty.
IDEX thanks you for your continued support.
Read the NY Times story.
At IDEX we applaud CARE for its brave and principled rejection of millions of dollars in government food aid. It is exactly because of these sorts of conflict of interest, in this case, between a government beholden to agribusiness lobbies and poor communities abroad struggling with a glut of subsidized American commodities, that some overseas aid agencies, including IDEX, have decided not to receive funds from government-sponsored programs. Instead, we rely on donations provided by thousands of generous individual citizens which, though harder to raise, come without any agenda beyond a sincere desire to end poverty.
IDEX thanks you for your continued support.
Labels: CARE, US Food Aid
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