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	Podcast:		Nine To Noon
	Episode:		Asuntha Charles: Afghanistan's growing humanitarian crisis
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:12:58
	Publish Date:		2022-12-08 20:20:00
	Description:		Children and families in Afghanistan are facing a growing humanitarian crisis, as mid-winter bites hard. Following decades of conflict, poverty, recurrent natural disasters, and the continuing impacts of the pandemic Afghanistan is enduring a hunger crisis, a near-collapse of the health system, devastation to schools, and the destruction of family livelihoods. World Vision's Afghanistan National Director Asuntha Charles is was the only World Vision foreign national who stayed in Afghanistan after power was transitioned back to the Taliban, while others were evacuated or left. Asuntha is one of the few female leaders dealing with the Taliban. She explains to Kathryn Ryan huge the humanitarian challenges are.
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