'Our hands are tied': Local aid workers exposed in pandemic

The coronavirus is exposing an uncomfortable inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid for countries in crisis: Most money that flows from the U.S. and other donors goes to international aid groups instead of local ones. Now local aid workers are exposed on the pandemic's front lines with painfully few means to help the vulnerable communities they know so well. “Our hands are tied,” a South Sudanese aid leader, Gloriah Soma, told an online event last month.

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