The phrase "aid collapsed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the failure or breakdown of assistance or support systems, particularly in humanitarian or financial contexts.
Example: "The aid collapsed under the weight of bureaucracy, leaving many in need without support."
Alternatives: "assistance failed" or "support system broke down."
Multination aid-for-disarmament talks have been on hold since 2009, and efforts by Washington to negotiate a freeze in the North's nuclear programme in exchange for food aid collapsed 18 months ago.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 24 (Reuters) — At least three people were killed and nearly 100 injured on Saturday when a bridge packed with hundreds of hurricane survivors waiting for food aid collapsed into a river in the southwest, the police and witnesses said.
War, famine, Aids, collapsing states: everything is falling to pieces.
If that aid-as-security argument now fails, then it is not surprising that the support for aid collapses.
I'm only here today because some wonderful people in the neighbourhood pulled me out of the rubble when our Christian Aid office collapsed.
As he has in the past, he proposed simplifying the cumbersome school aid formulas, collapsing several streams of revenue into one block grant.
Perhaps anticipating today's decision, Mr. Pataki promised just last week to streamline the state's complex aid formulas, collapsing at least 11 special programs into one grant the schools could use as they liked.
He was still Chief of the Air Staff at the outbreak of the Second World War on 1 September 1939; his main contribution to the war effort was his successful resistance to the transfer of fighter squadrons to aid the collapsing French thus preserving a large portion of Fighter Command which would become crucial during the Battle of Britain.
Both middle-aged men were seen to have severe burns on their bodies and were given first aid after they collapsed.
Stewart, whose focus on the responders to the terrorist attacks as host of "The Daily Show" in 2010 helped get the first 9/11 law passed, might not have returned to a place he found deeply distasteful the last time, except that a near deal to pass a new bill to aid 9/11 responders collapsed this week.
These are desperate, starving people in a place where the commercial infrastructure has collapsed, aid is only slowly trickling in and the bags of rice they are finding will be destroyed in the first rain if not protected from the elements.
