Over the past three months, 60,000 to 70,000 people have moved to Kabul, seeking food and healthcare or fleeing conflict or flooding.

These displaced families are living in makeshift settlements of tents scattered throughout Kabul. With no infrastructure and winter approaching where temperatures could drop as low as minus eight, we urgently need to help to build this infrastructure and provide facilities to protect these families from the freezing temperatures. Having left their livelihoods, these families risk, not just freezing temperatures, but also malnutrition and starvation. Kabul’s hospitals and clinics are already overstretched with the existing population. With 90% of clinics in rural areas and major cities closed due to lack of basic medicines and supplies Kabul has no capacity to support this massive increase in demand for medicines and healthcare services. So we must scale-up our operations rapidly to reach more families.

We provide emergency food packages, which give a family at least one meal a day. Typically they contains: Rice, Flour, Beans, Pea, Tea, Sugar, Salt, Macaroni

How donations can help

• 450 USD can help feed a family of 5 for 6 months
• 500 USD can help provide housing for a family of 5 for 6 months
• 150 USD can help provide essential clothing needs for a family of 5 for 12 months
• 350 USD can support women’s health for 4 women for 6 months

These displaced families are living in makeshift settlements of tents scattered throughout Kabul. With no infrastructure and winter approaching where temperatures could drop as low as minus eight, we urgently need to help to build this infrastructure and provide facilities to protect these families from the freezing temperatures. Having left their livelihoods, these families risk, not just freezing temperatures, but also malnutrition and starvation. Kabul’s hospitals and clinics are already overstretched with the existing population. With 90% of clinics in rural areas and major cities closed due to lack of basic medicines and supplies Kabul has no capacity to support this massive increase in demand for medicines and healthcare services. So we must scale-up our operations rapidly to reach more families.

Since August 2021, we have been providing emergency food packages to over 500 families sheltering in Kabul. The Zamir Foundation has provided critical assistance to over 20,000 families, affected by flood, disaster and conflict since April 2020.