Returnee/deportees and IDPs Assistance
More than half a million people live as internal refugees in their own country, and 3 million Afghans are still refugees in neighboring countries, despite extensive repatriation. Afghan people are today one of the largest refugee population in the world and the largest group of asylum seekers in the West.
Humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan is need-based and in line with VARA’s overall strategy for humanitarian assistance. Need-based aid means that aid is channeled to the population groups most in need of help. VARA humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan currently focuses on protection, assistance to internally displaced persons and to returning refugees, but also to especially vulnerable groups, such as women and children.
VARA has implemented many project in the sector of Returnees, Deportees and IDPs id different provinces of Afghanistan and the blow activities was done by VARA in the past 25 years:
- Returnees and IDPs camps management, registration and services
- Transportation assistance to the returnees EVIs and deportees coming from Iran and Pakistan up to their last destination
- Verification and scanning of returnees and Deportees at zero point for the assistance
- Transit camps management including necessary services during overnight stay of returnees and deportees
- Resettlement of IDPs
- IDPs and returnees profiling and emergency response
- Distribution of winterization packages to the returnees, deportees and IDPs
- Construction of shelter to the returnees and deportees
- Returnees township management for needy services
- Distribution of food and non-food packages to the returnees, deportees and IDPs
- Registration and verification of Person in Special Need (PSN) cases
- Primary health assistance and treatment