The World Food Programme (WFP) announced in a report that it reached nearly 250,000 food-insecure people across Afghanistan. This achievement came with assistance from China over the past few months.
The report stated that WFP procured more than 2,000 metric tons of food. This included fortified wheat flour, fortified vegetable oil, yellow split peas, and salt. WFP distributed the food to over 35,000 families, reaching nearly 250,000 people across the country.
“Entire communities across Afghanistan experience despair and hunger,” said Ma Chen Guang, Counsellor of Economic and Commercial Affairs of the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan, at a ceremony in Kabul on Thursday.”
“China will continue to work with the World Food Programme. The goal is to provide food assistance to hungry Afghan families. These families are in need of help for survival.”
The report stated: “The contribution from China came at a critical moment when a massive funding shortfall put at risk WFP’s work in Afghanistan. Last year, WFP had to cut 10 million people from assistance and this summer, due to the ongoing funding crisis, 11 million people did not receive emergency food assistance.
“This included more than 2 million mothers and their children who received no specialized supplementary food to combat malnutrition.”
“Afghanistan remains a global hunger hotspot and more than three-quarters of all people across the country cannot afford a nutritious diet that keeps them from falling into malnutrition,” said Hsiao-Wei Lee, Country Director of WFP Afghanistan.
“Families across the country need continued emergency food assistance to get through the winter months.”
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