Relief International teams on the ground are responding to the major outbreak of COVID-19 in Pakistan by providing hygiene kits to Afghan refugee families who will be hardest hit by the pandemic. These hygiene kits contain items such as soap, hand sanitizer, and masks, to help families protect themselves against the virus.
Pakistan hosts more than 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees, with most estimates suggesting that a million more immigrants live in Pakistan without proper documentation. The majority of the country’s refugee population live in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province located along the Afghan border.
Many of these families were living in already vulnerable situations before the outbreak. Pictured here, our staff respond to this latest crisis by providing hygiene kits to men, women, and children living in refugee settlements in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province:
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