Nearly 250,000 Afghans receive China-donated aid in past few months: WFP

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2024 shows the city view in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)

KABUL, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations World Food Program has distributed China-donated humanitarian aid and assistance to nearly 250,000 food-insecure people throughout Afghanistan in the past few months, official data from the agency showed on Thursday.

Welcoming China's humanitarian aid, Hsiao-Wei Lee, country director of WFP Afghanistan, says, "Afghanistan remains a global hunger hotspot, and more than three-quarters of all people across the country cannot afford a nutritious diet that keeps them from falling into malnutrition."

"China will continue to work with the World Food Program to provide food assistance to hungry Afghan families in need of assistance for survival," said Ma Chenguang, counselor of the Chinese embassy in Afghanistan, at a ceremony in Kabul.

Photo taken on May 4, 2024 shows a boy in front of a China-donated tent for flood-affected residents in Adraskan District, west Afghanistan's Herat Province. (Photo by Mashal/Xinhua)

The aid packages, including wheat flour, vegetable oil, yellow split peas, and salt, were distributed to 35,000 families or nearly 250,000 Afghans across the war-battered country.

China has supported Afghanistan over the past years with foodstuffs and non-foodstuffs, which had been distributed among poor and natural disaster-affected families in the country.