KABUL (BNA) The World Food Program says the organization has boosted food distribution services for Healthy child nutrition and infants in Afghanistan for the current year.
On the occasion of Mother’s Day, the World Food Program says in a press release, that currently 1544 steady health centers and 227 mobile health centers provide nutrition services for children and infants.
Vocational training holds for vulnerable women so they could support their families through the programs, further said the World Food Program.
The most vulnerable Women who lost breadwinners of the family, or whose husbands are disabled or unemployed are registering in vocational training programs.
Following the increasing poverty and unemployment, many families have lost their ability to live. Meanwhile, children from poor families are more at risk of starvation and malnutrition.
One in two Afghan children suffers from severe malnutrition, rendering to new UNICEF’s recent estimates.
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