An official of the World Food Program (WFP) for Afghanistan told TOLOnews that the organization needs $2 billion to help the 19 million people in need in Afghanistan.
According to a WFP official, food and monetary help would be provided to 10 million Afghans over the next three months.
“In June, July and August … WFP will assess more than ten million people, and we hope to mobilize the funding to scale up in the last quarter of the year. WFP Afghanistan needs 1.2 billion US dollars, with this WFP can assess 19 million food insecure people every month in the quarter of the year,” said Hsiaowei Lee, Deputy Country Director of WFP Afghanistan.
However, some of the country’s poorest families claim that the donations are insufficient.
Gina, a mother of six, described her anguish as she was forced to sell a child due to difficulty and poverty.
“It was a long time that I did not pay the rent. The owner of the house said that if you can’t pay the rent I will give it to someone else. I sold my baby when there was no bread and food,” said Gina.
The World Food Program (WFP) said that it has provided food and cash aid to residents in areas of the country’s nine provinces.
This aid is distributed as follows: In Deh Salah district of Baghlan: 12,000 girls, Shahid Hess district of Uruzgan: 4,000 families, Goshta district of Nangarhar: 2602 families, Khwaja Sabzpoosh district of Faryab: 4,009 families, Sabri district of Khost: 2,450 families
In Parun district of Nuristan: 2,000 families, Khash district of Badakhshan: 3000 families Qalai Naw district of Badghis: 681 families and Bamyan: 50 families.
In the meantime, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) recently said that 70% of Afghan people could not provide bread for themselves.
“Urgent assistance is needed. Aid must be delivered to the people in a transparent and correct manner. There has been no transparency in the distribution of this aid so far, and people are complaining that they have not received aid,” said Azerakhsh Hafezi, an economist.—Tolonews
