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 in cash assistance to 120,000 needy families in different provinces of the country this year.
In central Miadan Wardak province, the Danish Refugee Organization (DRC) and the Swedish Committee provided cash and winter clothes to hundreds of needy families.
Maulvi Faizullah Jalali, Maidan Wardak Natural Disasters Management department head, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 520 needy families, widows and disabled people, were given cash assistance in the Narkh district today and each family was given 29,000 afghanis.
He said that the Danish Refugee Organization also planned to assist 2,280 other needy families in the districts of Narkh, Jalrez, Daimirdad and Behsud in the next few days and give each family 29,000 afghanis.
Also in Maidan Warak, 40 needy families of Chak district were distributed winter clothes by the Swedish Committee.
Each family was given winter clothes worth 16000 afghanis, the committee said in a statement sent to Pajhwok.
In Paktia province, sewing machines and other related equipment were distributed to 200 needy and poor women.
Qari Muhammad Rahim Nusrat, Paktia labor and social affairs director, told Pajhwok that the Equality for Peace and Development (EPD) agency had provided the sewing machines and related equipment given to 200 women in Waza Zadran and Said Karam districts.
He added each woman was given a sewing machine, a table, a chair, scissors and other necessary items worth 14,000 afghanis.
Separately, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provided animal feed to 3,000 farmers in Mohammad Agha, Khoshi Charakh and Baraki Barak districts and Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital.
Maulvi Syed Amin Hashemi, Logar Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock director, told Pajhwok each farmer was given 200 kilograms of food for his animals.
He said the same assistance would be given to farmers in other districts of the province as well.
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