Shocking report on child hunger in Afghanistan.
A report by a non-profit organization based in the UK shows that around 10 million children in Afghanistan are struggling with hunger.
A British-based non-profit organization says about 10 million children in Afghanistan are struggling with hunger.
Save the Children says in a report that some 9.6 million children in Afghanistan are unable to provide a sustained daily supply of food as a result of the Ukraine war and the continuing drought.
In a report released on Tuesday (May 10th), the organization called for immediate food aid to save the lives of Afghan children, but added that aid alone was not the answer to “the worst hunger crisis in the country.”
“Despite significant food deliveries in recent months, 19.7 million children and adults, who make up about 50 percent of the population, are still hungry and in need of immediate assistance to survive,” the report said in part. are.”
Save the Children said 20,000 people had been starved in the country in the past two to three months alone. “Only by borrowing money can I buy food for my children, but often there is not enough food for them,” the report quoted a 26-year-old Afghan woman as Maryam, a mother of five. “Some days we have food to eat and some days we do not.”
Maryam said she recently had to borrow money to take her child to a hospital with malnutrition.
The country lost contact with international institutions after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last summer. The United States, on the other hand, has frozen nearly $ 10 billion in assets and created a banking crisis there.
US President Joe Biden last year ordered the blockade of Afghanistan’s assets, ordering that the blocked assets be distributed to the victims of the 9/11 attacks and that part of it be spent on humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. A Taliban spokesman said today that the United States should take responsibility for lifting sanctions and freeing the Afghan people’s foreign exchange resources.
