In an article about the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan August 31, the Washington Post quotes CARE’s Country Director Graham Davison on the far reaching impact of this latest tragedy.
“This earthquake strikes a country already facing lack of global support for a severe humanitarian crisis,” Graham Davison, Afghanistan director for the humanitarian organization CARE, said in a statement. “Nearly half of the population of Afghanistan — 23 million people — is already reliant on humanitarian aid, and yet the Humanitarian Response Plan is only 28 percent funded.”
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