KABUL (Pajhwok): Nearly 5,500 needy families were given cash assistance in Balkh and Maidan Wardak provinces, 200 poor women were given sewing machines in Paktika and 3,000 farmers received animal feed in Logar province.
Save the Children organization distributed cash assistance among 4,900 destitute families in the Chahar Bolak and Kushanda districts of northern Balkh province.
Ashiqullah Mandozai, a spokesperson of the organization, told Pajhwok Afghan News that each family was given 12,900 aghanis to help them meet the basic needs of their children and avoid hard labor.
Save the Children says it distributed $16 million . . .
