KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan says humanitarian organizations operating in Afghanistan reached 22.6 million people with food and livelihood assistance between January and July of 2023.
OCHA wrote on its X handle that 9.7 million for healthcare, 3.5 million children and pregnant/lactating women for malnutrition, 6.8 million for water, sanitation, and hygiene, 2 million children for education, 413,000 for emergency shelter and household items and 1.8 million for protection.
It said the funding for these efforts relied on $850 million carried over from 2022, supplemented by minimal new funding in 2023.
Meanwhile, the World Food Program (WFP) announced on X page on Saturday after Sudan, Afghanistan was now one of the top 10 countries with more than 1 million people suffering from emergency levels of hunger.
At the beginning of 2023, the United Nations requested the international community to provide a budget of 3.26 billion dollars for the continuation of aid programs in Afghanistan, but until now donor countries have allocated only 800 million dollars to this organization.
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