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UNICEF Plea for Afghanistan Drought Aid
2.5 million Afghans are facing winter without sufficient food, clothing and shelter. According to the United Nations, Nov. 7 (UPI), the U.N. Children’s Fund has issued an urgent appeal to help these drought-stricken people, half of them children. Officials warned that lack of water and food will exacerbate disease and malnutrition in the young.
Thousands of Afghan refugee families live in bombed out, mostly destroyed buildings with no furniture and bare walls. Other families live in caves plus there are thousands of orphans existing on the streets of Kabul.
Children’s Hunger Relief Fund recently carried 99 tons of food including rice, flour, salt, oil,
You see abandoned children almost everywhere you go in Afghanistan . Many roam the streets and countryside in groups, huddling together at night for warmth. |
beans, sugar and tea to the Bamyan region of Afghanistan using six large trucks. With increased threats of attacks, hi-jackings and ambushes, this was a long, dangerous journey by road.
CHRF provided more than 450,000 meals that helped over 2,000 families, widows and orphans, plus refugees outside of Kabul.
CHRF has plans for another distribution of supplies before the roads are closed, cutting off villages in the high regions of Afghanistan. With the drought and the renewed fighting, Afghanistan is in dire need of your help. Afghan winters are harsh enough on its own, but without adequate food, water, shelter and proper clothing, many people face death.
Children's Hunger Relief Fund has been providing relief and project support to the suffering people of Afghanistan since 2001. This includes:
 Caring for orphaned and abandoned children. We currently sponsor two Samaritan Center Children's Homes near the capital city of Kabul . These homes provide a long-term community of care and support for abandoned children, and also some war widows and their children.
Emergency relief. We have made multiple relief trips to Afghanistan , including several winter trips to remote mountain areas where particularly heavy snowfalls and extreme cold placed thousands of families on the knife-edge of survival.
Clean water projects. We recently began to sponsor water well projects in Afghanistan , which are critically needed for both health and agricultural reasons. Only 13% of Afghans have access to improved drinking water, resulting in high rates of waterborne disease and extremely high death rates for small children in particular. Water wells also help support a sustainable economic base through agriculture and other water-intensive small industry.
Infrastructure reconstruction. Much of Afghanistan's buildings and infrastructure were damaged or destroyed during the prolonged years of war. We have sponsored several reconstruction projects, including two bridges joining villages to schools and markets on the other side of the river.
Afghanistan 's best defense against the Taliban and other subversive factions is the improved economic well-being of its people - which is why these factions have specifically targeted foreign aid workers. The danger is greatest in the remote mountain areas, where the needs of the local people are also the most desperate. CHRF is one of the only organizations still working in these areas , due solely to the heroic volunteer commitment of our relief team. These brave men continue to risk their lives to deliver aid to poor families who would otherwise be cut off from outside help.
This commitment has not come without cost: three Afghan team leaders have been killed in the line of service. We salute these modern-day heroes and their families and ask you to remember them in your prayers. |
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