“Today we are launching an appeal for $4.4 billion for Afghanistan itself for 2022,” Griffiths said. “This is the largest ever appeal for a single country for humanitarian assistance and it is three times the amount needed, and actually fundraised in 2021.”
Rejecting questions that the funding would be used to support the Taliban’s grip on de facto government, Griffiths insisted that it would go directly into the pockets of “nurses and health officials in the field” so that these services can continue, not as support for State structures. Asked to describe what might happen if sufficient support was not forthcoming, the UN emergency relief chief replied that he was particularly concerned for one million children now facing severe acute malnutrition. “A million children – figures are so hard so grasp when they’re this kind of size, but a million children at risk of that kind of malnutrition if these things don’t happen, is a shocking one.
He added: “My message is urgent: don’t shut the door on the people of Afghanistan. Humanitarian partners are on the ground, and they are delivering, despite the challenges. Help us scale up and stave off wide-spread hunger, disease, malnutrition and ultimately death by supporting the humanitarian plans we are launching today.”
No-one should forget “that there is a regional dimension to this crisis, represented by the Afghan refugees, but also Afghans with many other ‘stay’ arrangements in neighbouring countries in particular,” Grandi said, “especially in Pakistan and Iran that have hosted Afghans for more than 40 years, but also Central Asian States.”
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