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NEW YORK — Earlier this year when Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that a significant majority of programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development would be canceled, it sent shockwaves of uncertainty through the global community of non-governmental organizations.
For World Vision, one of the world’s largest Christian humanitarian operations with more than 34,000 people working in nearly 100 countries, the move created what the organization’s president and CEO, Edgar Sandoval Sr., called a “meaningful disruption.”
It was meaningful because in 2023 alone, according to financial statements from World Vision, the U.S. government contributed some $661 million in grants of food and cash to their more than $1.5 billion life-saving and development work. Th