Xinhua News Agency
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations, its partners, and local authorities in Afghanistan have sent teams to aid the 17 people reportedly killed in heavy snowfall and avalanches, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday, Feb. 9.
The partners sent two mobile health teams to the Kunar province site in Dangam district to aid local communities and search and rescue personnel following the Sunday disaster, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. Many more people were reported missing.
The office said it, and the partners, also provide cash, non-food items, shelter kits, and warm clothes to almost 2,000 people impacted by recent rain and snowfall in Kunar, Nangarhar, and Laghman provinces.
Humanitarians are continuing their work across several other parts of Afghanistan, with 60,000 people receiving food or cash assistance and relief items, OCHA said. The current Humanitarian Response Plan targets just over 22 million people and requires US$4.4 billion but is only 9% funded.
By the end of last year, 180 national and international humanitarian organizations reached 19.6 million people out of a total population of about 37 million people, the office said.
The 19.6 million surpasses the 17.7 million people targeted in the last quarter of 2021, OCHA said.
Humanitarians hope to see a repeat of donor generosity in 2022 of the close to 1.7 billion U.S. dollars raised through the 2021 Afghanistan response plan. (Xinhua)–
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