Food & Medical aid for Afghanistan

Afghanistan is facing another manufactured crisis. Crippling sanctions and the freezing of the country’s assets have left millions here facing hunger.

At least a million children could starve over the coming months. They are being denied the right to live only because they wish to live as an independent nation.

A broken healthcare system is exacerbating Afghanistan’s poverty crisis. Forty years of war and neglect means, across the country, hospitals lack proper equipment and supplies, staff remain unpaid, and specialist practitioners continue to be unavailable.

The country has one of the world’s highest maternal and child mortality rates. In rural areas, sick patients must travel huge distances to cities just to seek routine treatment. And even then, the care they receive often isn’t adequate.

‘…and whoever saves the life of a person is as if he has saved the life of the whole of humankind.’ (5:32)