News Center- More than one million mothers and children are no longer receiving nutrition assistance in Afghanistan due to a massive funding shortage, the World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan announced Monday on social media platform X.

“In Afghanistan, it is women who bear the brunt with shrinking options to make a living,” said the WFP, stressing that women pay the highest price for the assistance cuts in Afghanistan.

Four million mothers and children malnourished

“Four million mothers and children are already malnourished. And without urgent funding, it will only get worse.”

600,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women in Afghanistan would not receive assistance this summer due to a lack of funding, the World Food Programme said on August 6, 2024.

More than 23 million people in Afghanistan require humanitarian assistance

In Afghanistan, 23.7 million people, over half of them children, require humanitarian assistance this year. In 2024, nearly 2.9 million children are expected to face acute malnutrition. More than 850,000 of them will need treatment for severe acute malnutrition, a life-threatening condition, UNICEF said on Sunday.