Formal care of orphaned disabled children begins in Baghlan

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): The Labor and Social Affairs department of northern Baghlan province has started formal care of disabled orphaned children by financially assisting fostering families.

Qari Nusratullah Parsa, Labor and Social Affairs director, told a ceremony in this regard that the disabled children whose parents were no more and had no one to take care of them would be given officially to foster parents in exchange for money.

He said the initiative was launched in cooperation with a charitable foundation and with financial support of UNICEF, including 50 children in the first phase.

He said the scheme would continue for six months and 5,500 afghanis would be paid to the fostering families each month.

A representative of the charitable organization, Nasir Ahmad, told Pajhwok that many children needed such care in Baghlan, but initially they picked 50 children in five districts.

Zala Bibi, a caregiver of an orphaned child, told Pajhwok she had no children of her own and she adopted the disabled child from the provincial hospital and she was being paid for taking care of him.

She asked the government and aid agencies to cooperate more in the treatment and care of the disabled child.

This is the first time that formal care of orphaned children has been started in Baghlan.

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