Join us in helping those left behind in Afghanistan
At a time when people in Afghanistan are going hungry, have nowhere to live and no certainty around their future, ReliefAid has been working on the ground delivering emergency aid to families in need.
Afghanistan’s complex humanitarian crisis remains one of the most persistent and severe in the world. In 2024, more than half of Afghanistan’s population requires humanitarian assistance. After four decades of conflict, poverty, repeated natural disasters and an economic crisis, millions of Afghans are displaced from their homes and struggling to survive. Girls and women have been particularly impacted with laws and restrictions which limit their involvement in life outside the home.
How are ReliefAid helping?
Since 2021, ReliefAid has been providing vital humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan. Despite the immense challenges facing the region, our commitment to supporting the Afghan people and children remains unwavering.
ReliefAid has been the ground delivering emergency aid to families in Bamyan province of Afghanistan. This region is rugged and remote, and families were camping out in the mountains or obsolete buildings with no income or humanitarian support.
Working with our partner Prime Consulting, ReliefAid was able to identify families most in need and deliver emergency food kits to displaced families. Our aid trucks rolling into these remote hills was a welcome sight for people who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from.
ReliefAid was also delivering emergency food supplies to families in Kabul where they sought safety in makeshift displacement camps in central city parks. In 2023 after the earthquakes, we delivered aid to remote villages in Herat province.
ReliefAid was also delivering emergency food supplies to families in Kabul where they sought safety in makeshift displacement camps in central city parks. In 2023 after the earthquakes, we delivered aid to remote villages in Herat province.
Thank you to those who have supported our aid deliveries and reminded families in Afghanistan that they are not forgotten.
We are committed to continuing to provide humanitarian action in Afghanistan and we continue to have a presence in Bamyan province with our education programme ‘Wings 2 Learn’.
Malika’s story
Malika, seen here with her children, is an English literature graduate who worked as a government employee before the conflict in Afghanistan killed her husband and destroyed her home. Now, at 32 years old, she is the main caregiver for seven other family members, including her disabled brother, Mahram, who was wounded in the bombing that changed all their lives.
Forced to flee the fighting, Malika and her family travelled to Kabul where ReliefAid’s team met her in a makeshift displacement camp, situated in a centre city park. They had been here for two months, living in a plastic tent. There was not enough space for everyone, or enough food and clean water. We delivered sufficient food supplies to Malika and other families in the camp to feed each family for two weeks.
Malika told us:
“I hoped to be able to get a job in an organisation that is functioning and working, but I have been told that recruitment of women in this situation is high risk because the new government has not issued any regulations allowing them to recruit women. I also lost all my documents and education certificates when my home was destroyed.”
Malika was using her skills in the role of women’s representative for the camp. However, she had grave concerns for the future of her family and Mahram who has difficulty getting around. She worried women may not be able to work and their movement may be restricted.
“My family is poor, and if I can’t work, there will be no income for my family. Already people are starting to get ready for winter, but I can do nothing.
I hope for peace, security, consideration of women’s rights, and respecting women in Afghanistan. I need aid, shelter, and a job so that I can live and rebuild my home.”