Federal Foreign Office supports additional emergency relief projects for Afghanistan

An unusually severe winter with heavy snow has exacerbated the already difficult humanitarian situation and claimed numerous lives in several parts of the country. At short notice the Federal Foreign Office has earmarked 394,000 euro from humanitarian aid funds for winter emergency relief.

World Vision Germany has received 300,000 euro to provide people in the barely accessible province of Ghor with medication and high-protein biscuits.

Malteser Germany has been given around 48,600 euro in financial assistance to supply more than 200 refugee families in Kabul with food, blankets, stoves and material for winter clothing.

Right at the beginning of the year the branch office of the German Embassy in Herat organized food aid for more than 1800 families in cooperation with the Afghan Red Crescent. Approximately 45,500 euro were spent on rice and oil.

Two additional projects with the Afghan German Doctors Association and Afghanistan-Hilfe Wenden e.V. (Wenden Afghanistan Aid) provided hospitals in Jalalabad and Kahdestan with medical supplies to the amount of 33,000 euro.

March 3, 2005

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