An official of the World Food Program (WFP) for Afghanistan told TOLOnews that the organization needs $1.2 billion to help the 19 million people in need in Afghanistan.

According to a WFP official, food and monetary help would be provided to 10 million Afghans over the next three months.

“In June, July and August ... WFP will assist more than ten million people, and we hope to mobilize the funding to scale up in the last quarter of the year. WFP Afghanistan needs 1.2 billion US dollars, with this WFP can assist 19 million food insecure people every month in the quarter of the year,” said Hsiaowei Lee, Deputy Country Director of WFP Afghanistan.

However, some of the country's poorest families claim that the donations are insufficient.

Gina, a mother of six, described her anguish as she was forced to sell a child due to difficulty and poverty.

“It was a long time that I did not pay the rent. The owner of the house said that if you can’t pay the rent I will give it to someone else. I sold my baby when there was no bread and food,” said Gina.

The World Food Program (WFP) said that it has provided food and cash aid to residents in areas of the country's nine provinces.

This aid is distributed as follows:

In Deh Salah district of Baghlan: 12,000 girls

In Shahid Hess district of Uruzgan: 4,000 families

In Goshta district of Nangarhar: 2602 families

In Khwaja Sabzpoosh district of Faryab: 4,009 families

In Sabri district of Khost: 2,450 families

In Parun district of Nuristan: 2,000 families

In Khash district of Badakhshan: 3000 families

Qalai Naw district of Badghis: 681 families

In Bamyan: 50 families

In the meantime, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) recently said that 70% of Afghan people could not provide bread for themselves.

“Urgent assistance is needed. Aid must be delivered to the people in a transparent and correct manner. There has been no transparency in the distribution of this aid so far, and people are complaining that they have not received aid,” said Azerakhsh Hafezi, an economist

This comes as Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the first deputy prime minister, said in a meeting in Kabul on Sunday that Afghanistan would not be self-sufficient until investment was made in industry and trade.