China Provides Vital Aid for Over 27,500 Displaced Afghan Families
China has handed over aid packages for more than 27,500 displaced families to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
These Chinese aid packages include blankets, kitchen sets, barrels, and plastic tarpaulins, which will be distributed to displaced families.
Arafat Jamal, the UNHCR Representative in Afghanistan, said during the handover ceremony: “Through this very generous assistance, we will be able to help 175,000 Afghans in need of assistance. The assistance provided is basic items that will help people to survive the winter.”
Welcoming China’s initiative, he called on the international community not to forget Afghanistan.
Arafat Jamal added: “We appeal to the international community. Don’t forget Afghanistan. We know that there are many crises in the world, but here we have an opportunity. Despite many challenges ahead of us, people are voting with their feet.”
Jamal described the return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and Iran as one of the significant challenges and said that the UNHCR must work with the Afghan people to ensure these returns are predictable and sustainable.
The UNHCR chief emphasized: ” Our challenge, as UNHCR and together with the people of Afghanistan, is to make sure that those returns occur in a predictable, stable manner, and that people coming back from Pakistan and Iran are able to contribute to economic growth in this country, to stability.”
Meanwhile, an advisor to the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan expressed satisfaction with China’s assistance to vulnerable individuals in Afghanistan, noting that the distribution of these items comes at a very opportune time as winter approaches and families need more support.
