Sabeeha Quereshi

From Sudan to San Francisco, food aid is under siege, and children are set to experience unprecedented, preventable hunger. Nearly 58 million people globally are at imminent risk of losing food assistance due to massive international aid cuts. In the United States, families are seeing their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits shrink as food banks struggle to meet demand.

by Sabeeha Quereshi December 9, 2024 Despite the global attention on humanitarian aid operations due to recent conflicts in Lebanon, Palestine, and Ukraine, as well as widespread attention from Gen Z to baby boomers, the public and even many policymakers often fail to grasp the spectrum of risks that health emergency and humanitarian aid workers (HAWs) face in conflict or crisis zones.

The current global water crisis will worsen as human populations multiply, climate change deepens, and the drivers of human displacement become more complex, from conflict and persecution to the increasingly pertinent variables of heightened mobility.