Filippo Grande, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, says Afghanistan cannot afford to reduce its humanitarian aid.
Mr Grandi, speaking to Reuters news agency in Kabul, said the world should not forget the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan because of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, which he said was affecting the aid process in Afghanistan. And hardened.
Mr Grandi added that the world’s attention had turned to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
He added: “I think it’s important to convey the message that other locations, which require political attention and resources, should not be forgotten, especially Afghanistan.”
Basmina is one of the families of victims of Afghanistan’s 20-year war. She is survived by her husband, who now cares for her four children and takes care of her family.
The misery has forced Bismillah to move from Nangarhar to Kabul, but life here has not improved.
Basmina says there are days and nights when her children fall asleep.
He added: “The other day a man called me to come and wash the carpets. I went and closed the door and told him to go back. When I came back, my children spent the whole day in the canal.”
One of the hopes of reaching out to these poor families was international humanitarian aid, which has raised concerns about the current decline.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says an international conference on attracting humanitarian aid to Afghanistan is scheduled to take place in the next two weeks.
The conference will be held on March 31 in Britain and Qatar, the head of the agency, Rams Al-Kabarov, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Archive, Free distribution of dry food to the poor in Afghanistan
Archive, Free distribution of dry food to the poor in Afghanistan
The main goal of the conference is to reach out to the 23 million Afghans currently facing hunger and poverty in 2022. The United Nations has asked for, 4.4 billion in aid, of which only 13 percent has been raised so far.
Meanwhile, Filippo Grande, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is concerned that this time, compared to the conference on humanitarian aid to Afghanistan held in September last year, Participating countries are less interested in aid.
These concerns come at a time when official UN figures show that 9 percent of the population in Afghanistan currently does not have enough food.
In view of the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan, the United Nations has called on the international community to continue its assistance to Afghans in need to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.
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