The Turkish president said at the event that recent floods in some provinces of Afghanistan have brought about a humanitarian disaster.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: "Following the floods, more than 400 of our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan lost their lives, and a major humanitarian disaster has occurred in the north of the country. We invite world countries to help the flood victims in Afghanistan. Turkey continues to send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after the floods."
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also emphasized the need for continued humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan.
Edem Wosornu, director of OCHA's Operations and Advocacy Division, said: "The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is fragile, 23 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance this year, this is 5 times the number in 2019. The majority of people in need are women and girls, children in Afghanistan (there are) 1.4 million girls who are directly affected by the ban on female schooling after grade six, this is a huge concern to say the least.”
"As I previously emphasized, 23 million people in Afghanistan rely on humanitarian aid; this is five times more than in 2019. The second point is sustainable solutions, including livelihood and agricultural support, and finally, we must hear their voices [the people of Afghanistan], they want us to listen to them," said Wosornu.
Shah Wali, a resident of Karkar town in Pul-e-Khumri, said that in addition to the loss of lives, significant financial losses have been inflicted on the people due to the deadly floods; however, no government or private organization has yet helped the affected people in this area.
"No one from the government or any officials came to help us or to ask about our condition, to see how the flood came and what it destroyed," Shah Wali told TOLOnews.
Some domestic charitable organizations, various departments of the Islamic Emirate, civil organizations in Turkey, and some businessmen inside and outside the country have also provided humanitarian aid to the recent flood victims. Countries such as Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Russia, Japan, and Uzbekistan have also provided initial aid to the flood victims.
Recently, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior delivered over two million afghani to the flood victims in Baghlan.
Based on statistics from the Ministry of Disaster Management, devastating and deadly floods have hit the provinces of Baghlan, Faryab, Ghor, Sar-e-Pul, Badakhshan, Takhar, Samangan, Herat, Badghis, Laghman, Bamyan, Farah, Nuristan, and Kapisa in the past two weeks.
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