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UNICEF Afghanistan Annual Report 2024
UNICEF Afghanistan’s 2024 annual report highlights the progress made for children and families across the country, as well as the complex challenges we continue to face.The numbers tell a powerful story of what we accomplished together, amongst them:over 20 million people, half of them children, accessed primary h...
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UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report: 01 January - 31 December, 2024
HighlightsIn 2024, 23.7 million people, including 12.6 million children, were in need of humanitarian assistance, mainly due to the residual impacts of a protracted conflict, returnees from Pakistan, extreme climate shocks and the country's severe economic decline, which is characterized by high unemployment and a...
Situation report
UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report: 1-30 November 2024
Highlights• Since 15 September 2023, over 758,000 Afghan returnees from Pakistan have been registered. UNICEF continues to support the response at the Torkham and Spin Boldak border points with health, polio, WASH, nutrition, child protection and social behaviour change interventions.• In November, over 460,000 ch...
Situation report
UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report: 1-31 October 2024
Highlights• Needs remain alarmingly high, with over 50 per cent of the population—23.7 million people, including 12.3 million children—requiring humanitarian assistance in 2024.• In October, over 832,000 children were screened for wasting, of whom 44,800 (58.5 per cent girls) were admitted for outpatient treatment...
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First-time students, lifelong lessons
Adolescence can be awkward. It is a time of growth and change — a period of navigating new responsibilities and emotions, exploring identity, and adjusting to the world. But for this group of teenage girls, the room buzzes with confidence and excitement. Although studying in grade 4 at an age when they should be i...
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Additional Financing for the Education Emergency Response for Afghanistan (EERA) Funded by the World Bank
The World Bank is funding the Additional Financing for the Education Emergency Response for Afghanistan (EERA) project, which is implemented by UNICEF along with its NGO implementing partners (IPs) and Contractors. The Project Development Objective (PDO) aims to enhance access to learning opportunities for girls a...
Press release
One year after the earthquakes in western Afghanistan, UNICEF calls for greater support to children’s basic needs and community resilience
HERAT, AFGHANISTAN, 7 October 2024, – One year after the powerful earthquakes in western Afghanistan, communities are showing signs of recovery. Families are slowly getting back on their feet, rebuilding their homes and lives after the disaster. But progress is fragile. Winter approaches and community resilience i...
Article
A tent full of dreams
“When lessons begin, I drop whatever I am busy with and come to class.” After a two-hour, early morning drive down a dusty road, Maryam arrives at her classroom in a tent. With her 34 other classmates, Maryam smooths her uniform and sits in one of seven neat rows, surrounded by tent walls adorned with colorful edu...
Press release
EU provides additional €13 million for malnutrition treatment and community-based education in Afghanistan
Pashto version:, Pashto, Here, Dari version:, Dari, Here, KABUL, 25 August 2024, – Over 78,000 children in Afghanistan will benefit from additional funding for nutrition and Education in Emergencies from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). With this €13 million contributio...
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More than just cash
No one in Amina’s family has ever been to school, but this has not stopped the 16-year-old from dreaming of going to school one day and learning to write her name. For years, for reasons she does not always understand, she has not been able to attend school in Afghanistan, while elsewhere in the world, children he...
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A safe school for Nadia
Just two years ago, 10-year-old Nadia’s school in Badghis province, western Afghanistan had no water. With 1,500 children enrolled at the school, the strain on the limited sanitation facilities, with no water, was enough to keep children away and missing critical learning hours. Nadia and her friends had a diffic...
Photo essay
Learning to read, daring to dream
DAIKUNDI, AFGHANISTAN – “I am happy that I can help my father to read phone numbers.” 9-year-old Khadija lives in Afghanistan’s remote central highlands with her parents and three siblings. Until recently, she was one of millions of children not in school, as around half of children in Afghanistan do not attend pr...