Geneva: The United Nations said Tuesday needed $ 5 billion in assistance for Afghanistan in 2022 to avoid humanitarian disasters and offering a country-hit by a future after 40 years suffering.
In the largest single appeal, the United Nations said $ 4.4 billion (3.9 billion euros) needed in Afghanistan, while $ 623 million was further needed to support millions of Afghans exceeded their limits.
The United Nations said 22 million people in Afghanistan and 5.7 million Afghans further in five neighboring countries needed vital assistance this year.
“A full humanitarian disaster pierced.
My message is urgent: Do not close the door to the Afghans,” said United Nations Assistance Martin Griffiths.
“Help us improve and prevent hunger, disease, malnutrition and finally death.” Since the Islamic Movement of the Taliban Hardline won control of Afghanistan in mid-August, the state has plunged into financial chaos, with inflation and unemployment soaring.
Washington has freezes billions of dollars in the country’s assets, while assistance supply is very disturbed.
Afghanistan also suffered from worst droughts in decades by 2021.
Without aid package, “it will not happen in the future”, Griffith told reporters in Geneva.
– 40 years unsafe flavor – Griffiths say appeal, if funded, will help assistance institutions increase the delivery of food and agricultural support, health services, malnutrition treatment, emergency shelter, protection and sanitation, protection and sanitation.
It is estimated that 4.7 million people will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2022, including 1.1 million children with severe acute malnutrition.
Griffiths said that without humanitarian assistance, distress, death, hunger, and further mass transfer would follow, “robbing Afghans about the hope that their country would become their home and support, now and in the near future”.
However, if the international donor advanced, “We will see the opportunity for Afghanistan which can eventually see fruit from a kind of security.” – Fear of the explosion – Griffiths said the security situation for humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan might be better now than for years, adding that staff at the Ministry in Kabul were mostly the same as before the Taliban takeover.
He said the UN Security Council step in December to help humanitarian assistance reached a desperate Afghanistan, without violating international sanctions aimed at isolation of the Taliban, has made the operating environment for donors and humanity on the ground much more comfortable.
Money will go to 160 NGOs plus UN agents who provide assistance.
Some will be used to pay for forefront workers such as health service staff but not through the Taliban government.
About eight million children can pass their education because most teachers have not been paid since August, Griffiths said.
UN refugee head Filippo Grandi said the purpose of aid package was to stabilize the situation in Afghanistan, including for internally displaced people, thus preventing flooding migrants further escape to the entire state border.
“The movement of people will be difficult to manage, in the area and outside, because it will not stop in the region,” he said.
“If the efforts don’t work, we must ask for $ 10 billion next year, not $ 5 billion,” he added.