34 Vulnerable Families Receive Food Assistance in Takhar Province

Kabul, May 10, 2020 - The Bazar Uzbakia and Shorcha Community Development Councils (CDCs) in Taluqan the center of Takhar province have contributed food relief worth AFN 136,000 at no cost to 34 families through the Grain Banks Initiative established under the Citizens’ Charter National Priority Program of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD/CCNPP).

The relief package for each family included flour, cooking oil, rice, sugar, red beans, tea, soap, tomato paste and dates provided through the program’s Social Inclusion Grant (SIG) intervention and CDC contribution as Internal Mobilized Food by Community.

It is worth mentioning that the MRRD/CCNPP grain banks’ activities have recently further increased in Afghanistan’s rural communities due to pandemic outbreak of coronavirus making people stay at home. 

The Citizens’ Charter is working with the CDCs to establish Grain Banks in villages by encouraging better-off households to donate to very poor households during the lean season and help mitigate seasonal hunger.

The Citizens’ Charter carries a detailed well-being/poverty analysis in each community to identify and target the most vulnerable households, including women headed households, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and households headed by people with disabilities.

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