While 255.1 million people were in need of humanitarian aid in 2021, this surged to 324.3 million in 2022 and 363.3 million in the first eight months of 2023, according to data by the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA).
The Canada Pakistan Association for the National Capital Region is holding collection drives every weekend till October 3, when a 40-foot container full of relief material will be shipped out.
A third charity train carrying 994 tons of emergency relief aid to Afghanistan, under the coordination of Turkiye s government, departed from the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Friday, Anadolu News Age.