World Humanitarian Day 2009 – Afghanistan
Posted on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Concern’s Afghanistan program focuses on the areas of agriculture and environmental protection, water and environmental health. It is a combination of humanitarian and development projects.
In the first six months of 2009 over 1,000 civilians had been killed through conflict in Afghanistan. This is a 24 percent increase in the rate from last year. Through the line of work five humanitarian aid workers were murdered and five were seriously injured. This is the context in which we operate. Read the rest of this entry »
