With over half of the population living below the poverty line (less than $1/day), the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed Afghans into an extreme level of poverty.  As the country has been on lockdown for several months now, families have been forced to beg on the street and go door to door to neighborhood homes. The government and international aid organizations continue to fall short in providing emergency aid to remote areas and displaced communities.

Prior to the pandemic, the UN estimated that more than 5 million Afghan children needed some form of humanitarian support and 2 million children under the age of 5 faced extreme hunger. The pandemic has made this exponentially worse. Afghanistan is in a perfect storm of hunger, disease, and death. This is also an opportunity to make a significant and life-saving impact.