WASHINGTON: The United States launched a new program for Afghans who have been evacuated to the ally operated country, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Monday.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs partnered with the Sponsorship Community Hub (CSH), a Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
project, to support the launch of the Sponsor Circle program for Afghanistan,” said the US State Department statement.
“This program will enable individual groups to form a sponsor circle to provide initial resettlement assistance to Afghans when they arrive and build new life in the local community throughout the country,” he added.
Blinken said this program would create new opportunities for Afghans and would “directly support Afghanistan that had been transferred to the United States welcomed.” Earlier this month, Biden administration has appointed Veteran Diplomat Elizabeth Jones to lead the relocation and resettlement efforts in Afghanistan.
The Biden government wants to live back permanently 55,600 Afghanees from the US military base to a permanent house, Khaama Press News Agency reported.
Bringing a large number of Afghans from a military base to a permanent house seems to be the biggest change for resettlement programs since 1980, added the report.