Cutting foreign aid to the

bone tells me just what sort of person you are Mr Trump. You have absolutely no idea of how much harm you have done have you? I doubt you would care even if you did know but let me tell you anyway.

My job has been to offer communication support to aid workers. Do you even know what an aid worker is? No? Let me explain. They are the people who go and get their hands dirty. They are the people who actually do the work? They are the people who risk their lives when there is a natural or man made disaster. They are the people who help to make peace and keep peace.

Your "efficiency" cuts put in place by a man who is not even an elected member of your government are causing more problems than I want to think about, than I want to face. Let me tell you about just a few of them. 

There is the surgeon who was going to perform an operation on an eleven year old boy. The surgeon is obviously highly intelligent. He is also compassionate and caring. The boy is also highly intelligent. He had dreams of one day having a job and doing something for his country. That operation is now at risk. The surgeon was giving his time and expertise for nothing. His community in the US raised the money for the operation but the operating theatre may not be working because of the cuts you have made. Yes, it is just one child but there are many more like him. He has a mother who loves him. His father was killed in a war you do not even seem to be aware of.

There is the vaccination team trying to eradicate measles. The vaccines are at risk because you have cut aid funding. You have appointed someone who does not seem to believe in vaccines in your own country. Any vaccine program in another country is something you think you can just dismiss. It won't matter to you that children will die of a preventable disease because your son has undoubtedly had his shots. That is all that matters to you.

There is the community which raised the money for the refrigeration unit which would be used to store medicines in another overseas community. That unit is now sitting on the docks and nobody knows when it will be able to be loaded on a ship to go - or whether it will be able to go at all.

There is the civil engineer who is trying to delay his departure from a major project in a poor country. You want him to return to America even if it means the project will not be finished and millions of dollars will be wasted. You think they can do it themselves but the reality is that their war torn country has not been able to train engineers for many years. This might help them to do it. He was volunteering his expertise.

There is the teacher who went to a village three months ago. He expected to stay at least three years. He loves what he is doing but the money is suddenly not there. The money is not to pay him but to provide the essentials so schooling can actually take place. He was volunteering his services. 

Oh and please don't forget that water supply which is being built so people can grow their own food and be independent. Some young adults from a church somewhere in the mid-west of your country on their way to help the local people set this up when you halted all aid to that project. 

I could go on. I only know about these things because all I do is provide a tiny bit of help so people can communicate with each other. It lets each side know they care about the other. It is about both sides saying both please and thank you. It is about all those people I know who have given up so much to go and help. I have known people who have lost their lives helping in some of the most dangerous situations on the planet. I can see you shrugging and saying something like, "Well they knew they were taking a risk." You just do not care do you? 

I do care. I know many, many other people who do care. It is why we work long unpaid hours in a week while you jet off to your fancy home in Florida for the weekend. I had plans to "retire". Your actions mean I have not yet been able to do that. We are trying to find ways around your stupidity and selfishness.

It may come as a surprise to you Mr Trump but the very best form of defence any country has is foreign aid, genuine foreign aid. It is not the "aid" given in the form of expecting something back. Leave that to Russia and China. This is the sort of aid that comes from following the commandment, "Love one another".

It is clear to me that you love nobody but yourself Mr Trump.