” “An appeal to focus again on the fight against poverty and social justice, in Afghanistan, since in the last few years the humanitarian aids have not gone to the population and the worldwide food crisis resulted in an excessive price rise, with riots and strikes. The appeal and denunciation come today from Caritas internationalis, in the run-up to the International conference on Afghanistan, which France will host on June 12th. In listing the reasons for poverty in Afghanistan (one of the countries with the lowest development rates in the world, due to decade-long conflicts, poor infrastructures, mass migration, floods and diseases, etc), Caritas internationalis looks at the current state of the aids to development that have arrived in the last few years to support the establishment of new state institutions. Aids turning out to be "less efficient and less effective". "The efficiency of aid distribution in Afghanistan denounces the confederation of 162 catholic centres was widely criticised. Many of the aids that pass through the government stop in Kabual, and substantial amounts from the international funds go to corporative profits or expensive foreign consultants". Many of these aids are "frozen funds", that is, "donors freeze these funds so that a part of them is used to import labour and materials, often to their countries". (continued)
