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Nov 2021-Feb 2023

TACKLING THE AFGHAN FOOD CRISIS

© 2013 Paul Hageman

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2020-2023

MEDAIR

Medair is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to relieving human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. It has been active in Afghanistan for 25 years. Since 2020 we’ve been regularly funding its relief in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Madagascar, Somalia and Ukraine.

CHALLENGE

In August 2021 the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. International donors suspended non-humanitarian funding and froze billions of dollars of assets. The economy sunk with widespread poverty and a food crisis. Nearly 23 million Afghans face hunger and over 1 million children are at risk of dying.

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ACTION

We funded Medair to provide health, nutrition and food security support to vulnerable Afghans living in the Central Highlands and southern regions of the country.

Three mobile teams screened and treated acute malnutrition among children under five and pregnant or breastfeeding women.

IMPACT

81,817

AFGHANS SCREENED FOR ACUTE MALNUTRITION

11,974

CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN OR WOMEN BREAST FEEDING TREATED FOR MALNUTRITION

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©Medair / Wendy van Amerongen

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©Medair / Andrew Robinson

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©Medair / Eric Itin

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© Medair / Jonathan Kyle

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©Medair / Wendy van Amerongen

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©Medair / Andrew Robinson