The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the launch of its largest-ever drive to feed schoolchildren – a multi-million dollar effort to provide nutritious meals to up to 1 million girls and boys in Afghanistan.
In the Afghan capital, Kabul, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today said it plans to employ some 3,500 women bakers to ensure that more than a quarter of a million Afghan schoolchildren are fed over the school year.
More than 3,000 unskilled workers – including women – have been recruited by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and municipal authorities to clean up the Afghan capital, Kabul, and other urban centres.
The United Nations food agency today warned that southern Afghanistan is poised to face more drought, which has already ravaged the war-shattered nation.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today announced the start of an airlift operation designed to provide urgently needed assistance to women and girls in Afghanistan.
With the arrival of Spring and growing stability in Afghanistan, the United Nations refugee agency today repatriated 150 Afghans as part of a larger programme aimed at helping the country’s beleaguered people return home.
