Crisis facing 23 million people; Charity bakeries bring food to the people of Kabul
Kabul: Charity bakeries have sprung up in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as food shortages continue to plague the country. Local media outlet Ariana News reported that the bakeries are run by voluntary organizations.
The Hazara Foundation, an Afghan charity, has reportedly delivered food this week to hundreds of families affected by the crisis through two bakeries in Kabul. The foundation has opened two ‘Tabassum Charity Bakeries’ in the western part of Kabul to help people.
The bakeries deliver food to about 300 families daily.
“People are happy to be able to help,” said Mohammed Sharif Tabish, a member of the Tabassum Charity Bakery.
The activists said that if the two bakeries could not continue their operations, the number would increase.
The World Food Program estimates that 23 million of the country’s 3.9 million people are facing severe food shortages and will need at least $ 2.6 billion to get food.
Earlier, there were reports of parents selling their babies in Afghanistan due to severe food shortages. The shocking information was contained in a report released by the International Forum for Rights and Security, based in Canada.
The report said that the food crisis would last until March 2022 and that Afghanistan needed urgent assistance from various countries and organizations.
The current problems are attributed to the Kovid epidemic, drought, domestic problems in the country and the recession. The new Taliban government’s inability to raise funds for food security in the country has also been cited as a major problem.
Earlier, the United Nations warned that Afghanistan was facing a major food crisis and that millions of people, including children, would starve to death if immediate steps were not taken to recover from the devastation.
Meanwhile, people protested in front of the US embassy demanding the release of Afghan assets.
Protesters held banners reading “Let us eat,” and “Give us back our money that was withheld.”
After the Taliban government seized power in August, it cut off all international funding to Afghanistan. In foreign countries, billions worth of Afghan assets, mainly in the United States, were also frozen.
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