At the border with Iran Fatima Rezaei, it distributes food and hygiene products to Afghanists, forced to return, unable to stand passively as the exile crisis grows.
A 22-year-old is one of many Afghan volunteers to help his countrymen, despite the fact that they have little.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 1.6 million Afghans, including many children, have returned after being deported or deported from Iran, which accuses them of increasing unemployment and crime.
“It doesn’t matter if you have a lot of money or not. I don’t have much, but with the help of Afghans here and abroad, we manage,” said Rezaei.
According to the United Nations Chief Refugee Commissioner (UTPK), the number of crossings at the Islam Qala border reached 30,000 in a few days and July 4th. July 4th. According to 50,000, July 4th.
In response to this, the Western region was mobilized, partly because of the victims sent by Afghans living in Europe or North America.
Local television channel journalist Rezai travels more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) to reach the border from her native city Herat.
From a pile of cardboard boxes, it distributes baby napkins and sanitary towels to women gathered under the tent and surrounded by about a dozen children.
“It is our duty to stand next to them,” she said.
“The government is trying to help, but that’s not enough.”
International organizations help to register migrants, but are facing a huge budget reduction.
Meanwhile, the Taliban authorities are trying to support Afghans, who often left everything, an influx and returned to the country of poverty.
– “We have a duty” –
Unemployed Hosna Salehi Volunteers together with their parents charity Khan-e-Meher to distribute aid, such as a baby formula.
“Some women tried to breastfeed with young children, but they didn’t have enough milk due to stress,” she said AFP.
“At the moment, our Afghan colleagues need our support. We have a duty to give what we can, whether it is little or much.”
Solidarity shows “forcing us to be proud,” said Ahmadullah Wassiq, Director of the High Commission of Refugees in Afghanistan.
“The government cannot solve these problems alone,” he admitted, “and citizens need to expand.”
The Taliban government says it provides money on arrival and establishes cities to return to Afghanists, though it does not indicate when they will be ready.
Herate, at the nearest large border, some in the unstable circumstances lived in tents donated by residents.
– “expands the hand” – –
Some said they had to restore their lives when they returned home.
“The only thing we are worried about is to find a job,” said Hussein, 33, who has spent more than 10 years in Iran.
“There they told us that our documents were no longer valid. We had good jobs. We now have to find a job and start from scratch,” said the father of the two, who was excited by the support he encountered the Afghan wall side.
“They really helped us and extended our hand,” he said, waiting for a free bus to take him almost 1000 kilometers to the capital Kabul.
According to the World Bank, in Afghanistan, where half of the 48 million people live below the poverty line, “there is not much volunteering culture,” said Omid Haqjoo, 27, as he prepared food in huge cooking pots.
“But we are trying to encourage it … to provide missing support,” he added.
After a day in the heat in the humanitarian tents near Islamic Qalos, Salehi felt an enhanced “Life Lesson”.
“If I could help volunteer, I think everyone can,” she said.
“And when I go home and think about all the Afghans colleagues who smiled and prayed for me, that’s enough for me.”
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