UN report

The UN report on Afghanistan’s rising child deaths as food distributions face cuts is heartbreaking and highlights an alarming situation that the world must pay attention to (“Afghanistan’s child deaths are rising as food distributions face cuts: UN,” Aug.5, Gulf Today website).

According to the report, child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen as funding shortfalls force cuts in food distributions and other support, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said. “We must act now to stem the rise in child deaths, which this crisis is provoking,” John Aylieff, WFP’s country director in Afghanistan, said in a statement, adding that “it is already too late for too many.”

The people of Afghanistan are very brave. Despite facing decades of war, the country is trying its level best to progress in many fields of life, but the rising number of child deaths due to cuts in food distribution is making the situation worse.

The world should come together and help the brothers and sisters of Afghanistan cope with the alarming cuts in food distribution.

I hope the world will address this concerning matter at the earliest, which will help save children from such ill-fated circumstances.

Saleman Khan
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