Increasing concern about the needs of 250,000 children deported from Pakistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim News Agency, the international organization Save the Children announced that around 250,000 Afghan children are facing a lack of shelter, food and access to education after their forced return from Pakistan.

The organization’s survey shows that 99 The percentage of families deported from Pakistan do not have enough food to eat.

This organization stated in a report that since May of last year, the government of Islamabad started the process of forced deportation of Afghans. 520 thousand Afghan citizens have been deported to their country.

This children’s rights organization emphasized that almost half of the returnees are children who suffer from hunger.

According to the report, about three-quarters of returnees and families in host communities reduced the size of adults’ meals so that young children could eat at least two days in the past week.

About forty percent of returnees and families of host communities have had to at least Borrow food three days a week or rely on their friends and relatives.

According to this survey, nearly one sixth of the evicted families live in tents and They have very limited or no household appliances to support their livelihoods.

The survey shows that only one-third of the deported refugees were able to bring their belongings from Pakistan to Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, almost half of the returnees say that there are no jobs in Afghanistan, and 81% do not have any skills for employment.

Save the Children says that almost two-thirds (65 percent) of children who return to Afghanistan are not enrolled in schools.

” Irshad Malek, head of Save the Children in Afghanistan, said: “Families return to Afghanistan with almost nothing. Most of them rely on relatives or friends to support themselves, and these communities already have few resources to support themselves”.

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