"We were providing life-saving grants. We were able to provide emergency grants within 24 to 48 hours. We were really protecting lives and saving lives....We had a refugee die because a hospital was closed at the border of Myanmar and Thailand."
"75 percent of our overall funding."
Manushya is an eight-year-old Thai NGO with an intersectional feminist human rights mission that provides safe houses for Southeast Asian environmental and political opposition activists. In 2024, the organization received a $750,000 USAID grant intended for subgrants across Southeast Asia and expected an additional $525,000 in 2025 that never arrived after a USAID shutdown during the Trump administration. The missing funds represented 75 percent of overall funding. Manushya delivered emergency, life-saving grants within 24–48 hours and experienced at least one refugee death linked to a closed hospital at the Myanmar–Thailand border. Media exposure enabled the NGO to secure foundation grants totaling $500,000, allowing continued operations at a reduced scale. USAID distributed $43.8 billion in fiscal 2023, with major health and humanitarian programs such as PEPFAR credited with saving millions of lives since 2003.
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