Save the Children says there is a growing need to end child hunger in Afghanistan alone
Monsignor Joji Vadakara, Vatican City
Athena Rybon, the organization’s communications president, said that despite significant food aid being provided to families in Afghanistan in recent months, about 50 percent of the country’s people are still starving. She added that while about two crore people are in need of food assistance, the organization has funds only to provide basic facilities to about 32 lakh people.
Ninety-six million children are starving every day due to the economic crisis, the ongoing war in Ukraine and the drought facing people in various parts of Afghanistan.
Save the Children, which has been working with children around the world for nearly a hundred years, made the announcement yesterday.
The country is facing its worst food crisis in recent memory. Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August last year, the international community suspended aid, imposed sanctions and froze various funds.
Afghanistan is facing the worst famine of more than 40 million children worldwide.