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A severe funding crisis puts at risk gains made through record levels of food assistance provided in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover in 2021 and  the economic crisis that followed. But a severe funding crisis puts at risk all gains made.  

WFP can only support 1 million hungry people, leaving a gap of 11 million in need who do not receive emergency food assistance due to lack of funding. Additionally, 1.4 million mothers and children are no longer receiving specialized nutritious food to prevent malnutrition, while malnutrition rates remain critically high.  

The climate crisis is exacerbating challenges for communities across the country, with erratic weather conditions now becoming the norm. Heavy rain in spring 2024 has led to flash floods across the country, washing away entire villages and destroying the livelihoods of some of the already most-vulnerable communities. This follows years of successive, drought-like conditions.

This comes on top of earthquakes at the end of 2023, which destroyed villages in the west of the country, and the forced returns of tens of thousands of families from Pakistan. Many returnees came back with nothing, to a country they barely know, and where there are few opportunities to make a living and feed their children.  

WFP needs US$617 million to sustain all its programmes up to December 2024, including pre-positioning food for next winter. 

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What the World Food Programme is doing to respond to the Afghanistan emergency

Food and nutrition assistance
WFP provides unconditional, fortified and nutritionally-balanced food assistance to people in need in the country. Our targeted supplementary feeding programme supports pregnant and breastfeeding women, and over 1 million children under 5, suffering from or at risk of malnutrition.
Climate resilience
WFP is investing in climate-adaptation projects designed and built by communities to shield them from the worst effects of the climate crisis. These include protective walls, dams and irrigation canals.
Common services
The WFP-managed United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) is providing a regional air bridge linking Pakistan and Tajikistan to Kabul, and domestic services across the country to transport humanitarian responders to the frontlines of the crisis.

How you can help

The international community needs to step up to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. WFP needs US$670 million from January to June 2024 to reach 15.2 million people with lifesaving food, nutrition and livelihood support
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