China aid brings hope to people in Afghan slums

Xinhua News Agency, Kabul, August 14th: China aid brings hope to people in Afghan slums

Xinhua News Agency reporter Zou Xuenian

"In the past, our family could only eat two meals a day, and now we can finally eat three meals." A few days ago in a slum in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saiyd Hassan lived in the hut where the seven people in his house lived. Tell reporters before.

At the end of August last year, the U.S. military evacuated from Afghanistan. In the 20 years since the United States invaded Afghanistan, it has taken the lives of 174,000 Afghan people including more than 30,000 civilians. Nearly one -third of Afghanians have become refugees, and more than half of Afghanians face extreme hunger.

When the people of Afghanistan face severe food and other shortage of living materials, assistance from China, such as the warm current, crossed the Pamir Plateau to Afghan, brought hope to the local people. After August last year, the Chinese government announced that it would provide Afghanistan with emergency humanitarian assistance such as grain and wintering materials worth 250 million yuan. At present, all supplies that China promises to assist in the Afghanistan has been handed over to Afghanistan.

Said Hassan's home is located in the Afshar Mountain in Kabul City. It is one of the large local slums. More than 5,000 households are crowded on this small hill. A semi -underground house of about fifty square meters is the place where the seven people in the Said Hardy Hasan family. A bite of iron pots, a stove of wood, several dilapidated tableware and two blankets are all their home.

"In the past, our family rely on me to help others carry heavy objects on the street. The daily income cannot let my family eat enough. I even have to borrow money to buy food." Hassan stood in the yard at his door to reporters Said that the eyes were stamped from the corner of the courtyard to printed the words "China Aid" food bags.

Since last year, the Hassan family has received two aids including rice, edible oil and flour, etc., including rice, edible oil and flour. "When I first carried Chinese aid for the first a few months ago, the children were very happy." Hassan said.

"China has been helping the people in Afghanistan for a long time," "Afghanistan's temporary government national disaster management and humanitarian department spokesman Maoravi Mohammad Nasim Hakani said in an interview with reporters," We thank China! "

Abdul Salam, who lives in the slums in the Western Afghanistan, also received rice and flour a month ago. Under an explanation of a neighbor who had worked for foreigners, Salam understood the meaning of two English words "China Aid" printed on rice pockets.

"This is the assistance of Chinese neighbors for us. We thank China for their help to Afghanians," Saram said. "I have no money to buy rice and flour in the past. help."

The reporter found in an interview with Afghanistan that China aid brought special warmth and hope to the people of Afghanistan who had suffered war and poverty for many years. China has become synonymous with warmth.

On a crowded path at the door of Salam, a child sat across the donkey's back while reading a book while rushing to the water on the water. In the slums of Afghanistan, people's way out of war and poverty is difficult and long, but the dawn of hope is gradually emerging.

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