Need of 2 billion dollars for food aid to Afghanistan
| The World Food Program announced that it needs 1.98 billion dollars to provide food aid to Afghanistan next year. |
According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, “the program In its latest report, “World Food” announced that Afghanistan needs 1.98 billion dollars to provide food aid next year, and added that in the first three months of this year, one out of three people faced “acute food insecurity”. /p>
This report in March this year described Afghanistan’s economic situation as “fragile” and stated that due to the fragile economy and the high level of food insecurity in Afghanistan, the aid programs of this The organization is facing a budget shortfall of 590 million dollars.
This budget includes 111 million dollars in relief costs in the winter of this year and next year.
According to this report, including all the needy, about seven million people are among the most vulnerable people in Afghanistan.
It should be said that The World Food Program needs $1.98 billion in 2024 to deliver emergency food, nutrition and livelihood support to the needy in Afghanistan.
The World Food Program announced before had said: “We must invest in sustainable and long-term solutions so that hunger in Afghanistan reaches zero”.
“Muna Sheikh”, the head of the nutrition department of the World Food Program in Afghanistan, stated that this organization has reduced the distribution of aid to families, which causes an increase in the number of people suffering from malnutrition in Afghanistan.
Some experts consider the embargo and freezing of assets in Afghanistan as one of the important causes of poverty and unemployment in this country.
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