BAMYAN CITY (SW): Officials in central Bamyan province has said that persistent drought, cold weather and insufficient yield, have forced some 50 percent of the residents here to live beneath the poverty line.
It is said that the residents are not only poor but they have very less food to eat and some are even faced with the danger of being starved.
Many of the residents in Bamyan are farmers who heavily rely on agriculture, but due to drought, they are grappled with many challenges now.
Mohammad Asef Mobaleqh, Deputy for the provincial governor in the province, distributed humanitarian aid provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund among the needy people. He said that the aid has diminished to the province compared to the previous years. He urged upon the government to set aside more humanitarian aids for the Bamyanis.
He said that the government should plan long term assistances for the residents. A sort of assistance that could generate income, he suggested.
Naik Mohammad, an official at the UNICEF, who was also present at the occasion, said that the aid would be distributed among more than 1750 poor families in the center of the province.
Habiba, a local woman who received the aid, said that she has moved with her four-member family from Kabul to Bamyan due to poverty and harsh living conditions.
She said that her husband is sick and they live in a rented house in the province now.
Hooria is another destitute woman, who single handedly supports her family. She said that that she leads five-member family and considers the aids as blessing.
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