Attachments
In Numbers
1.8 million people reached with food and cash assistance in June
US$1.4 million distributed to 200,000 people through cash-based transfers
Women with children across the country make up 80 percent of WFP assistance
Highlights
• Mass arrivals of returnees from Iran, with high needs, are placing additional strain on already fragile communities. Daily arrivals average over 19,000, with a peak of 25,900 have been recorded. Resource constraints mean that we are able to reach only a small fraction of those needing assistance. Without a further injection of funding, returnee assistance will diminish and cease within a few weeks.
• June Emergency Response: WFP assisted 268 households affected by flooding in Badakhshan, Takhar, and Baghlan provinces, and supported 76 of 125 households displaced by cross-border conflict in Kunar’s Nari district.
• Admissions of malnourished children and women into health centres are rising amid general food assistance cuts. WFP operating way under a minimum threshold is taking its toll. A serious drought has been declared in the North, and pressure on communities of return from Iran and Pakistan is driving up needs further. High excess mortality in the Winter months is a critical risk.