![Afghans Suffering from Ongoing Fatal Crises and World's Negligence [part 1]](https://al-sarira.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/afghan_girl003-1-scaled.webp)
Three years after the change of government, millions of Afghans are still struggling in one of the biggest and most complicated humanitarian crises in the world. Afghanistan’s population is impoverished, internally displaced, and hopeless, and is mostly dependent on humanitarian help. If the international community does not continue to engage with and help Afghanistan, its challenges could be neglected.
Afghanistan is going through repeated traumas. The nation has suffered greatly as a result of the financial crisis, gender discrimination, the effects of the changing climate, and the scars of years of warfare. Even with the country’s overall security situation improving and opening up previously unreachable locations, there are still numerous obstacles that prevent us from efficiently serving everyone in need.
According to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) 2024, there are approximately 23.7 million people in need of emergency assistance, with women making up 25% and children making up 52%. There is a great deal of shortage of food, 6.3 million people are still refugees, and the jobless rate has increased by 100% in the last year.
As of August 13, 2024, just 25% of the needed cash had been collected for the emergency assistance appeal for 2024, despite the fact that assistance has been a lifesaver for Afghan villages. People’s daily lives are being negatively impacted by the reduction in emergency financing, and the burden of humanitarian aid is being increased by the heightened vulnerability caused by a lack of money for medium- and longer-term programming.
Growing Pains Afghans Are Facing
343 health care teams have been closed this year, making up 52% of all health teams. Because of the inability of these communities to receive vital life-saving interventions, there has been a notable influence on nutrition and health responses. The acute shortage of food affects 12.4 million people and is predicted to get worse, potentially depriving almost five hundred thousand malnourished children that could save their lives. Mothers suffer a disproportionate amount as well; usually, they eat the least and finish last.
Families, particularly those led by women, are having to make difficult choices in order to stay alive, such as moving their family inside the nation, frequently shifting to unofficial settlements, taking risky cross-border trips, and sending their kids to work.
Further desperate circumstances are also being experienced by the nation and its citizens as a result of the widening humanitarian finance imbalance and the cessation of economic assistance as of August 2021.
Those who have signed to this declaration emphasize that humanitarian assistance alone is insufficient to address the current situation in Afghanistan; instead, the international community must provide a thorough, ongoing, and framed response.
Afghanistan is in dire need of sustained development aid to deal with the underlying causes of poverty. In order to facilitate the expansion of international aid operations in Afghanistan that incorporate development initiatives in addition to humanitarian help, diplomatic engagement is essential.
