Emergency Relief
Afghanistan
Devastating Floods in Afghanistan
Baghlan Province
In May 2024, there were devasating floods in the province of Baghlan, Badakhstan ans Takhar Provinces, located in the north east of the country. At least 50 peple were killed and over 60,000 people were affected. Approximately 7,800 homes were damaged or destroyed.
​In the Baghlan Province, Shelter Now was able to provide 1,100 families or approximately 7,700 people with the basic emergency food needs of flour, rice, kidney beena tea ans sugar.
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For this we continually need your support as floods occured again in February 2025 and every year during hot summers due to dry, hardd soil. Please help us with your donation. Keyword: Floods.
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Food Relief
Today, the priority need of the population at large is for the provision of the basics of food.
Shelter has always assisted many people during the harshest times of the year to try and lighten the burden they face. However, currently, the need is widespread throughout the country in this season, before the harvest.
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Afghanistan continues to experience marginal improvements in food security since the large degredation in the situation in 2021 political transition.
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However, everyone in Afghanistan (current population estimate of 46m) is under some form of food insecurity*.
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SNI has the ability to offer many people food to help them make it through the brutal drought and floods, displacement, joblessness and increasing food prices.
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*https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1159622/?iso3=AFG
Through your generous donations in 2024 Shelter Now provided relief for:
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Food relief for 600 IDP for returning refugee families near Kandahar (Spin Boldak AFG/PAK border region)
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Food relief for 750 flood families in the Herat region
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Winter food relief and kitchen items for 100 Chalou families
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Food relief for 430 Chalou families in Kabul
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Food relief for 1,100 families in Bahlan Province
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Food relief for 400 families in the province of Nuristan
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Food Relief for 400 Kuchi families (nomadic shepherds)
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This is equivalent to about 20,280 men, women and children in need of emergency assistance
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But we still have urgent needs
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Food relief for families in Afghanistan .
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To last two or three months, it costs about $191 AUD per family to provide the basic food items of:
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50 kg of flour
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5 litres cooking oil
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7 kg kidney beans
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25 kg rice
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2 kg tea
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5 kg sugar for tea
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Can you help us do this?
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Deaf Center Firewood relief
Each year, Shelter provides firewood for the students in the Deaf Centre in Kabul during the winter months.
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The firewood provides for cooking of food and some heating in the homes of the deaf. The cost of wood increases as winter approaches, after October.
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In January 2025, we provided wood for 42 families.
We would like to do this again for the cold winter months of 2025/26. Will you help us?
Kurdistan, Iraq
We have been working with refugees in Kurdistan since 2014. We have now been able to provide many refugees with a wide range of essential items. We are very grateful to our supporters. In this way, we can work together to ensure that refugees recieve what they urgently need.
The refugees live mostly in ex-UNHCR camps and do not recieve aid from the UN any longer. They are therefore dependent on alternative aid.
Shelter Now has spent around 1,350,000 euros on projects for Yazidis, Christians and Muslims who have fled: in Raniya, Erbil, Suleymaniya and Baadre. (As of January 2024).
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Staple foods and fresh fruit
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Winter clothes, warm blankets and carpets
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Drinking water and water filters
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waterproof tent roofs
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Radiators and fuel
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live chickens, turkeys and geese – also for breeding purposes
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Water tanks
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and distribute more to thousands of refugees.
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Can you help us help the refugees in Kurdistan?
