Desperate Villagers in Afghanistan

For the first time in 20 years, after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, there is no official US presence in the Hindu Kush.

This has had a profound effect on international aid programs, in which the United States has played a major role for the past two decades. Most of them were suspended, at least temporarily, after leaving the United States.

However, people in the village of Gyan, as elsewhere in Afghanistan, still have high hopes for the United Nations and international aid organizations. To provide services, for many Afghans, especially in remote areas of the country, is still not acceptable or, at least in the current situation, they can not imagine it.

The people of Galai and similar villages across Afghanistan had to provide themselves, even when basic infrastructure was needed.

Road shortages are not the only problem. In Ochkay, for example, a village on the edge of a forest in Gyan, 227 students are studying outdoors without a school.

For residents of such remote villages, negligence continues in the twenty years of Western-backed Republic of Afghanistan, and now under the second Taliban Islamic Emirate.

Agencies are focusing their efforts on increasingly efficient distribution of funds across the globe. At the same time, according to a Western staff member of a Kabul-based NGO, the willingness of donor countries to minimize asylum seekers' migration to Europe means that they sometimes require NGOs to carry out projects in places where a large number of asylum seekers have come from, instead of where the needs.

While the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, some in remote areas such as Gala rarely hope that aid will eventually reach remote areas such as their village. They are still looking for international aid.

 

Source and Credit: CSmonitor, dawn