YouTube video by Shawn Siochain Soniashnyk Svyatyy / Sunflower Saint (Sunflowers Don't Wear Suits) by Shawn Siochain 1st time played

Soniashnyk svyatyy. Sunflowers don't wear suits, they fight in combat boots.
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YouTube video by Shawn Siochain Made Me Your Villain - Shawn Siochain original song written in tribute to my USAID colleagues

I have devoted my life to USAID projects since my first one with CEDPA in 1999. I have been devastated by the cruel vilification and shutdown of our work.

We are not villains.

I wrote this song for us.

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If it’s December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

‘Americans Can and Will Die from This’: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.

If you think you know what is going on with USAID, you don't.

"They don’t even have the help button on their phone. If I had a colleague that was in West Africa and had someone from ISIS go and take them, they couldn’t even let the [Regional Security Office] know"

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If DOGE actually cared about waste, fraud, and abuse, they would have started with Defense.

The DoD is the ONLY part of the gov that NEVER passed an audit. It is the largest spender, simply can't track up to 2/3 of their assets, and has no idea where billions are spent every year.

Google it!

None of us are always strong and resilient.

I knew this was coming, but it was faster than I imagined... two friends of friends have taken their own lives because of what is happening.

Please, reach out. To a friend, family, me, the hotline (dial 988), anyone. We will get through this together.

My USAID contractor ID card, cut into pieces at the command of the new government

For 25 years, I have devoted my life to the betterment of humanity, at the command of congress through USAID.

I went to Afghanistan to help rebuild the health system so the people there could see that we are better than the taliban. We were the front line to prevent another 9-11.

That was USAID.