Emergency Relief
Afghanistan
Devastating Floods in Afghanistan
The UN said in its latest report that so far in 2024, over 119,160 people have been affected by heavy rainfall and flash flooding across 32 provinces. Many houses were destroyed and lives lost.
Creator Mohsen Karimi Photo Credit AFP
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has noted that since 10 May 2024, more than 59,100 people (8,668 families) have been affected by heavy rainfall and flooding across the northern (11,303), northeastern (23,296) and western (24,064) regions of Afghanistan.
As of 6 June 2024, 225 people have been confirmed killed (137 in the northeastern, 80 in the northern and eight in the western region); more than half of the deaths occurred in Baghlan Province alone. A further 217 people have been injured.
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Overall, more than 2,800 homes have been destroyed and 4,069 damaged.
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For this we need your support. 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 44.5m) 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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*IPC_Afghanistan_Acute_Food_Insecurity_Mar_Oct2024_snapshot.pdf
Through generous donations from April 2023 to April 2024 we provided relief for:
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Food relief for 1,370 Chalou families in Kabul and Laghman province
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Food relief for 600 IDP for returning refugee families in near Kandahar
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Food relief for 750 flood families in Jalalabad and Khost
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Winter food relief for 400 Kuchi families
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Food relief for 225 Earthquake families in Khost
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Food relief for 885 Pashtun families in Jowzjan
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Food relief for 831 Baloch families in Kandahar
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This is equivalent to about 28,315 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 to three months, it costs about $142 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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5 kg kidney beans
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24 kg rice
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2 kg tea
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5 kg sugar for tea
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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 2024, we provided wood for 39 families.
We would like to do this again for the cold winter months of 2024/25. 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 to help the refugees in Kurdistan?
