Kevin Goldberg, director of the French charity Solidarités International, for which American aid accounts for 36% of its budget, has calculated that they will find themselves "with more than two million people who, from one day to the next, will no longer have access to our aid." The US government's freeze of USAID (which manages a budget of 42.8 billion dollars, representing 42% of the humanitarian aid disbursed worldwide) is sending shock waves around the world as many humanitarian organisations face uncertainty and confusion in their day-to-day management, if not fear of having to shut down. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES