Kabul: The Afghan interim government’s Ministry of Martyrs and Disabled Affairs announced on Friday that more than 653,000 families of widows, orphans, and disabled individuals have been registered in the past three and a half years.
“A payment of 2,000 afghani (about 28 U.S. dollars) is allocated for each individual identified as a widow or an orphan. The registered number of widows and orphans with us rose to 120,000 to 130,000,” Tolonews quoted Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the deputy minister of martyrs and disabled, as saying.
Efforts to establish educational and professional centres for martyrs and disabled families are ongoing.
Meanwhile, the ministry donated about 12.5 billion afghani (about 176 million U.S. dollars) to support nearly 600,000 widows, orphans, and people with disabilities during the past year.
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