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Laura Wilkinson's avatar

This is so sad to think about. I heard directly about one suicide in the elimination of USAID. I know of many local staff that are scared for their futures after working with the US. We are mourning, but in silence - I am so disappointed, disgusted, and overall disheartened that not more influential people are standing up for what’s right and against what’s happening. Where are our leaders?

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S h's avatar
Apr 22Edited

This is something I’ve been thinking about. How are we coping? The daily waves of grief & tears, while cooking dinner, waking up in the morning, grocery shopping, job searching, making my daughter’s lunch - it strikes any and all the time and is disorienting when I can’t pinpoint what I’m grieving exactly - or maybe it’s the immensity of all I’m grieving at once. It’s a loss of purpose, a loss of identity - nationally & personally - and knowing we pulled the rug out from families that have no food & nothing left. And it’s the pure, unadulterated rage I’ve internalized

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