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Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Sam Fenwick.

Today we catch up with some of the projects affected when the United States cut its

multi-million dollar aid budget earlier this year and ask what the future holds for them.

In eastern Rwanda, the sound of soap being mixed in a bucket marks the start of a small business,

one helping a woman support not only her family, but her local community too.

And in a clinic in southern Nepal, a mother watches anxiously

as her toddler is checked for malnutrition.

When we received the stopwork order, it was really truly heartbreaking, you know,

because it came as a shop.

In the first of our two-part series about the future of global aid, we'll hear how a handful of

projects were helped by a mystery donor. They said they wanted to do more than anticipated. They

would all receive enough funding to keep them operational for the next 12 months. In total,

that covered about $65 million. And how governments are trying other ways to fill the funding gap.

The future of global aid as the US pulls back.

All coming up on today's Business Daily.

Over there, there is a kitchen where I cook.

That hen even has chicks.

It has four chicks because of the eggs.

I wanted it to hatch.

This is Marciana, and she's showing us around her small compound in Rwanda's Nyagatare district.

It's about two and a half hours drive north of the capital Kigali.

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