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Kabul: Hsiao Wei Li, country director for WFP Afghanistan, emphasized the need to provide the necessary funds for the distribution of humanitarian aid to the needy in Afghanistan and has warned that it is just “days away” from cutting assistance to 9 million people in Afghanistan if it does not immediately receive funding.
The United Nation’s World Food Program (WFP). The WFP delivers food, cash, and other assistance in emergencies.
“We urgently need $93 million to assist 13 million people in April and $800 million for the next six months,” the WFP said in a tweet on March 29.
Hsiao-Wei Lee said that “catastrophic hunger knocks on Afghanistan’s doors and unless humanitarian support is sustained, hundreds of thousands more Afghans will need assistance to survive.”
According to UN statistics, this year 28.3 million people (two-thirds of Afghanistan’s population) will need humanitarian aid to survive, as the country is experiencing the third consecutive year of drought and the second year of severe economic recession.
According to a recent report by the United Nations, 17 million people in Afghanistan face acute hunger in 2023, including six million people who are at emergency levels of food insecurity and are one step away from famine.
