Italy has contributed one million euros to support vulnerable women and youth in accessing licit income opportunities in Afghanistan, the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced on Tuesday.
The Department of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock says crops on nearly all rain-fed and 50 percent of irrigated lands have gone dry in northern Faryab province.
Hundreds of families have been provided with animal feed and 120 farmers with improved quality wheat seed and chemical fertilizer in southern Helmand province. Helmand deputy director for information and culture Maulvi Sher Mohammad Wahdat told Pajhwok almost…
Refugees returning via Torkham crossing into eastern Nangarhar province say Pakistan forcibly deported them and currently they face a host of problems and need urgent support. The newly arrived families say they have no money to pay house…
The process to distribute improved quality seeds and chemical fertilizers to nearly 18,000 farmers has been started in southeastern Paktia province. Paktia agriculture director Maulvi Abdul Rauf Saeed told Pajhwok that the process to distribute the seeds and…
The acting government has distributed 3.35 million afghanis among floods-affected families in the Jalrez district of central Maidan Wardak province. Every family of the deceased was given 100,000 afghanis and of the injured 50,000 afghanis. According to figures…
Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) says a fresh cash package amounting to $40 million arrived on Tuesday as part of the global fraternity’s humanitarian assistance. The central bank tweeted that sending humanitarian aid through the banking sector ensures transparency…
Thousands of poor families and farmers in Nangarhar, Logar, Jawzjan and Zabul provinces were distributed food, cash and improved quality wheat seeds, officials said on Tuesday. In eastern Nangarhar province, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and…
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…
More than 9,000 needy families received food items in Logar and Maidan Wardak provinces and 500 farmers were distributed improved quality wheat seed and chemical fertilizer in Farah province, officials said on Thursday. In Logar province, the World…
The United States has provided $1.1 billion in assistance to Afghanistan since August 2021, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said on Wednesday. SIGAR, on its twitter handle said, the US remains Afghanistan’s single largest donor, having…
Thousands of needy families received food and cash assistance in Takhar, Maidan Wardak and Logar provinces, officials said on Tuesday. Food items were distributed among 10,955 deserving families n Takhar and Maidan Wardak provinces and 1,300 poor families…
Hundreds of poor , displaced and flood affected families received food and cash assistance in Maidan Wardak and Laghman provinces, officials said on Thursday. Maulvi Faizullah Jalali, director of Maidan Wardak Disaster Management Authority, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Floods-affected families in Khoshi district of central Logar province say assistance provided by aid organizations is not transparently distributed and families living in camps face numerous problems. Sadiqullah, a tribal elder from Khoshi district, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Thousands of destitute families received food and cash assistance in eastern Laghman and central Maidan Wardak provinces, officials said on Sunday. Laghman rural development director Mualvi Mohammad Zahir Zarkmar told Pajhwok Afghan News that 3016 poor families…
Natural Disaster Management Authority officials in eastern Laghman province on Wednesday said they distributed food aid to 600 affected families. Qari Khair Mohammad Ghazi, director of disaster management, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the affected families belonged to…
UNICEF on Sunday pledged to reach out to 1.1 million children suffering from severe malnutrition by the end of 2022 in Afghanistan. On it Twitter handle, UNICEF Chief of Nutrition for Afghanistan Melanie Galvin wrote: “In March alone,…
UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Achim Steiner during a visit to Afghanistan has assured UN’s and international community’s assistance for Afghanistan humanitarian and economic development. Steiner’s visit comes days before an International Conference for Afghanistan in Doha, the…
World Health Organization (WHO) has provided a PCR machine worth $150,000 to provincial hospital of southeastern Paktika province. Dr. IsmatullahHikmat, director of public health, told Pajhwok Afghan News with the machine availability patients do not need to go…
Nearly 10 thousands farmers and livestock owners received improved quality wheat seed, chemical fertilizer and animal food in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Thursday. The assistance was provided by the World Food Program (WFP) to farmers…
Norwegian foreign ministry has said it would provide nearly $10 million in humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. Norwegian foreign ministry in a statement said that Afghanistan is faced with serious humanitarian crisis and for that reason the Norway government…
