Saturday September 14, 2013
Herat (BNA) The governor and some elders of Ghor met with Mohammad Karim Khalili Second Vice-President and by presenting a report on the status of drought in the province asked for serious government measures towards assisting the affected families.
At this meeting while Keramuddin Keram a representative of Ghor province at the House of People was present, losses emanating from drought had been considered serious and they asked for food and non-food aid by the national committee for disaster preparedness to the affected people. The governor noted that almost 70% of the people have been affected due to drought, adding that drought has affected more than 100,000 families in the province and over 10% people have been displaced noting that the people need close to 200,000 metric tons of food including oil, beans, and other basic food items as well as some non-food items.
The elders of the province proposed dispatching of government delegation to the province including representatives of agriculture and irrigation, energy and water, rehabilitation and rural development and that of national committee for disaster preparedness to the province to manage dispatching of aid to the people.
They stressed that in case aid is not dispatched at the soonest in the coming winter they will be witness to human tragedy in the province.
