A boarding school student said of the effects of U.S. aid cuts on her school: “The internet is gone. It used to cut out sometimes. Now it is completely gone. Our whole education depends on research and digital platforms. Without it, we are just sitting in a building with tools we can’t use.”
Date: 3/26
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Country: Egypt
Topic: Education
Policy Lens: Economic & Trade Interests
Entry Type: Field Observation
Additional Context: This quote was collected as part of The Aid Report’s original reporting, “Built with U.S. aid, Egypt’s elite science academies now face collapse.” The feature story examined how a network of Egyptian STEM academies once held up as a model for modern education is unraveling after the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. support, exposing the fragility of reforms built on external expertise.
This quote is attributed to Mona, a student at a boarding school in Cairo that specializes in STEM.
Source: Devex