Brown-eyed Ahmad Zia, 35, whose tired and hopeless eyes spoke, thanks to hunger and poverty, was forced two months ago to leave his home for Kabul with his eight-member family and take shelter in a camp of the displaced.
He has no house to live in, he said, camping in the tent and spending the hardest days and nights with his young children.
Azmat Khan, another internally displaced person, described his life in the tent. His children go to bed hungry for nights—they often have no food, he said.
Most of the children suffer from malnutrition and pneumonia due to cold weather and food shortages, he told TKG.
Sajjad, 8-years-old boy, who also lives with his family in the tent, moaned about not having a warm cloth and a pair of shoes to wear and a warm and comfortable house to live in.
“I would love to have a warm house, clothes and food,” the child, who is trying to warm the cold little hands burning plastic wastes, spoke with TKG.
Authorities in Afghanistan’s ministry of refugees and repatriation stress the ministry has reached to most of the internally displaced people over the past four months—months after the collapse of former government under Ashraf Ghani and the return of the “Islamic Emirate”—and provided food, clothes and in cash aid to them.
There are currently 48 camps in Kabul where internally displaced people live in, said the spokesperson for the ministry, adding a number of them have returned back to their provinces over the last months.
Those among the internally displaced who continue living in Kabul are included in the process to receive humanitarian assistance following a survey, the spokesman said.
It comes as Afghanistan topped the International Rescue Committee’s list of countries deemed most at risk of humanitarian deterioration in 2022.
In the meantime, millions of Afghans face growing hunger exacerbated by drought, soaring food prices, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic decline.
Sajia Yasin and Rahila Yousofi contributed to this report
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