Rwamwanja, Uganda • President Donald Trump’s cuts to humanitarian assistance abroad have hurt all kinds of people. But from what I see on the ground, those suffering the most are women and girls — and that will leave all of us, including men and boys, worse off.

Sometimes the cuts don’t directly target girls, but when families are stressed it is girls who pay the highest price. In Rwamwanja, a Congolese refugee settlement I visited in southwestern Uganda, aid cuts led to reduced food assistance and to the layoffs of 88 teachers; the result was that thousands of students dropped out of school in the last few months, and the great majority of the dropouts were girls.

“Only about one-quarter of our schoolchildren are girls now,” said David Mugenyi, the settlement’s commandant. Until a few

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