{"id":19592,"date":"2026-08-13T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/13\/eu-donates-10-million-euros-to-afghanistan-humanitarian-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:06:54","slug":"eu-donates-10-million-euros-to-afghanistan-humanitarian-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/13\/eu-donates-10-million-euros-to-afghanistan-humanitarian-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Donates 10 Million Euros to Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the European Union has contributed 10 million euros to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund, a donation set aside to sustain relief services for those in need amid widespread poverty and hardship in the country.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA wrote on X on Thursday, 22 Asad, that the funding will help ensure the continuation of humanitarian services and support the delivery of life-saving assistance to millions of people in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as many Afghan residents struggle with economic difficulties, hunger and a deepening poverty crisis, while aid agencies have repeatedly warned of funding shortfalls in responding to urgent needs.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that in 2025 more than 13,000 children in Afghanistan had been deprived of malnutrition treatment programmes because of cuts in humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA is the United Nations body coordinating emergency assistance, and the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund is one of the financial mechanisms used to support relief programmes across different sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU has donated 10 million euros to Afghanistan\u2019s humanitarian fund as aid agencies warn of severe poverty and funding shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}