In Baghlan province, the Kator Foundation distributed food packages to families who had been struggling to feed their households. Each package contained flour, rice, and cooking oil — the staples that form the basis of nearly every meal in northern Afghanistan — enough to feed a family for several weeks.
In rural Afghanistan today, food insecurity is one of the most common forms of suffering. Drought, lost work, rising prices, and broken supply chains have pushed many families to the edge. A package of flour, rice, and oil is not an exotic gift. It is the difference between a family that eats and a family that does not.
This distribution was made possible entirely by our donors. Every sack of flour, every kilo of rice, every bottle of oil came from people who decided that the families of Baghlan should not go hungry while there was something they could do about it.
We believe that no one should have to choose between feeding their children and meeting any other basic need. These food packages may have lasted a few weeks, but the message they carried — that someone, somewhere, was thinking of these families — will last much longer.