RASC News Agency: The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has reported that, over the past year, it successfully treated more than 17,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition in Kandahar province. This initiative was financially supported by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center and implemented through UNICEF-supported clinics.
The IsDB noted that these children received therapeutic food packages from these clinics over the last 12 months. According to the report, approximately 16,000 therapeutic food packages worth over $953,000 were distributed to these children in Kandahar during this period. The IsDB further detailed that the total number of children treated under this program was 17,543, comprising 9,940 boys and 7,603 girls.
Recently, Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) announced that last year it treated 10,400 children, and in the first four months of this year, it treated 2,416 children under the age of five suffering from malnutrition in Kandahar, Herat, and Helmand provinces. The organization provided a grim outlook on the situation of children in Afghanistan, attributing the high rates of malnutrition to widespread unemployment and poverty.
It is noteworthy that following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, poverty and unemployment have surged. In the past three years, this unemployment crisis has claimed many lives, driving some to suicide and forcing others to flee the country, only to perish at sea.
