I served as a missionary in Honduras for 10 years, during which time I directed programs funded by USAID and the Canadian government.  These programs focused on appropriate technology in bringing water, irrigation, hillside terracing of crops, and sanitation in the second poorest country in the western hemisphere.  People bathed and washed their clothing in the rivers, which also received untreated sewage.  Infections of parasites were commonly acquired through the feet, and invariably skin infections developed from wearing in freshly-washed clothing.  We brought solar-powered lighting to rural villages which were not serviced by the electrical grid, and built a road connecting several remote villages in a food-for-work program.  These programs were aimed at increasing food production, teaching technologies that were not dependent on imported fertilizers.  It is saddening to see such programs targeted by the Trump Administration as unnecessary.