Afghanistan | 2024 | CBPF Afghanistan, Qalat district. It only took seconds to turn Nasibullah’s life upside down. In 2021, the 8-year-old was on his way to his father’s workplace in Niazian village,...
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Cash helps returning families when they need it most
Afghanistan | 2025 | CBPF Afghanistan, Kabul. When Leila and her family returned to Afghanistan from Iran, they had few ties to their home country. Months before, the family had to leave Iran. It was...
Cash assistance gets families the help they need
Afghanistan | 2024 | CBPF Afghanistan, Kabul. Gulpari*, 35, lives with her brother, Amingul* and their extended family in a modest home in Kabul’s Bagrami district. Originally from Aryoub Zazi in...
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From drought to deluge, OCHA’s pooled funds help people through climate-related disasters
Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Myanmar, Somalia and Syria |2023 and 2024 | CBPF and CERF Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Myanmar, Somalia and Syria. As climate-related disasters...
Providing a lifeline for women affected by crisis
Afghanistan | 2024 | CBPF Afghanistan, Baghdis. At fifty-five, Gul Jan is supporting her grandchildren. “I came here today to receive some cash,” she explains. “My grandchildren will be so happy, as...
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Local NGOs, supported by OCHA’s pooled funds, are on the front lines of humanitarian response
2023 | CBPF Afghanistan, CAR, Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen. In an emergency, local and national organizations are often the best equipped to provide water, food, shelter and other...
New water infrastructure supports a peaceful rural community
Afghanistan | 2023 | CBPF Afghanistan, Nangarhar province. The village of Loy Ragha is split in two. One community lives higher up the hillside, and the other down the valley. They have lived...
Critical livelihoods support to prevent famine
Afghanistan | 2023 | CERF Afghanistan, Badakhshan province. Sharif, a 68-year-old farmer in Lowani village, says the last few years have been particularly difficult. Climate change has led to an...
Combining WASH and GBV prevention
Afghanistan| 2023 | CBPF Afghanistan, Balkh province. Chemtal district is one of the most remote districts in the country. People depend on their livestock and their crops, but many of the most rural...
Empowering women through improved health care in Herat
Afghanistan | 2024 | CBPF Afghanistan, Herat province. On a cold winter morning, 21-year-old Shokria visited a WHO-supported health centre close to her home in Herat province, western Afghanistan...
Emergency care after the earthquake in Afghanistan
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Sunshine brings water to remote areas
Afghanistan | 2022 | CBPF Afghanistan, Farah province. Roz Mohammad* says that his village lacks just about everything, and that it only started receiving support from NGOs after the previous...
After devastating earthquakes CERF and AHF respond together
Afghanistan | 2022 | CERF Paktika Province, Afghanistan. Two earthquakes – one on 22 June and a second on 18 July –_affected over 362,000 people living in Paktika and Khost provinces. Critical...
Emergency cash helps a father support his family
Afghanistan | 2021 | CBPF Afghanistan, Badakhshan province. Living in a remote village affected by drought and COVID-19, Abdul lost his sight as a child. He has nine children. “When [an] avalanche...
Clean water supports the wellbeing of rural communities
Afghanistan | 2022 | CBPF Afghanistan, Langman province .In Afghanistan, many villages in the most rural and hard-to-reach areas lack access to clean water, sanitation facilities and hygiene items...
Emergency assistance to Afghanistan's health infrastructure
Afghanistan | 2021 | CERF Afghanistan, near Kabul. In one remote village outside Kabul, CARE, an Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund partner, is the only organization providing health services – including...
Safe water for drought and conflict-affected people
Afghanistan | 2021 | CBPF Afghanistan,Kandahar. In a remote village in the hot and dry province of Kandahar, Ahmad carries a heavy water barrel with the help of his 9-year-old son. They had traveled...
Ensuring access to COVID testing and treatment
Afghanistan | 2021 | CBPF Afghanistan. One day in July 2021, Mohammed Hussein felt weak, with fever body ache and dry cough. "It didn't take long for my symptoms to become quite severe." His brother...