Education, food and health programs have been cut, resulting in preventable deaths, aid groups say
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About a year ago, the Trump administration abruptly withdrew funding from an Australian project feeding and educating tens of thousands of schoolchildren in Timor-Leste.
Almost half the children under five in the country – which has a population of about 1.4 million, with about 157,000 under five – are stunted due to malnutrition.