The assistance was arranged by the “European Union” to the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation and will be consumed in the settlements of the returnees and displaced ones in the country.
The officials from the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said, the aid has been made based on a memorandum of cooperation between the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, IDLG Human Settlements Programme and the United Nations (UN – Habitat) worth 10 million Euro (over $11 million dollars).
A statement was released by the Ministry of Refugees states that the purpose of the agreement is to provide a framework for the effective implementation of agreed programs establishment of the local displaced ones and the poor people of Afghanistan between the years of 1393 to 1396.
The statement adds that the program will initially start in three provinces, Kabul, Herat and Nangarhar.
Sayyed Hussain Alemi Balkhi, the Minister of Refugees, during the signing of the memorandum stated that this amount is in two parts:
The first part is helping to build a shelter for a thousand families of returnees and displaced and the second part is the infrastructures areas that the returnees or displaced have long been replaced in, will be spent on.
According to Balkhi, the amount is spent within three years.
Currently Afghanistan is one the countries which has the most migrants around the world that the most migrants of the country are in Pakistan and Iran.
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