Christian nonprofits in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador are slashing budgets, letting employees go, and abandoning projects because of relief cuts made by the Trump administration last year.
According to Christianity Today, ministries working in the Northern Triangle have been reeling since last June when the Trump administration withheld over $500 million in foreign aid. Unhappy with the onslaught of illegal immigrants, the State Department sought to pressure their governments to slow migration. But several nonprofits are saying that they were seeing progress.
“The Trump administration shot itself in the foot with these cuts,” said Chet Thomas, director of Proyecto Aldea Global in Honduras. “These projects are designed to … reduce the number of people migrating to the US.”
Much of this foreign relief aid landed with Christian relief organizations who worked to fix situations that caused people to flee to the US. Some nonprofits helped to develop communities while others trained national staff.
The International Justice Mission (IJM) felt the hit. The nonprofit had to layoff 40 percent of its staff last year, as well as pull back on its partly government-funded $10 million “Project Sentinel.” The project was focused on strengthening the criminal justice system by mentoring police and lawyers. According to an independent report, the project was…
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