KABUL, 28 February 2022, (TON): An OCHA director in the operations and advocacy division, Reena Ghelani who led a UN delegation that recently visited Kabul to assess the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan said “at least four million Afghan children are expected to be affected with malnutrition, of whom 137,000 will lose their life in 2022.”

The delegation made the visit to Afghanistan after many Afghan citizens complained about the unfair distribution of aid provided by the UN agencies.

Ghelani told media in a special interview “we report against our target and our deliveries, and we need to be out there talking to people more and hearing their complaints, we certainly need to hear if there are problems out there and this is part of the mission that we went on.”

She added “I spent most of my time and all of us… talking to Afghan people about those exact issues and hearing from them directly so that we can make sure that we are targeting correctly.”

Economists believe that giving direct cash to the people would help the Afghan economic system.

Abdul Naseer Rishtia, a university professor said “if the aid was provided in cash, it would help the value of the Afghan currency and would solve the cash problems in the markets.”