108 Vulnerable Families Receive Humanitarian Aid in Kandahar

Kabul, May 19, 2020 – Seven Community Development Councils (CDCs) in Spinboldak district of Kandahar province have contributed humanitarian assistance worth AFN 467,000 at no cost to 108 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, red beans, lentils, salt and tea provided through the program’s Social Inclusion Grant (SIG) intervention and CDC contribution as Internal Mobilized Food by community. 

Taking the lockdown due to pandemic outbreak of Coronavirus disease into consideration these days, the Citizens’ Charter has increased its humanitarian aid delivery activities through its grain banks across Afghanistan. 

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.  

Citizens’ Charter National Priority Program of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD/CCNPP)

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