UNHCR biometric program facilitates cash aid delivery to 39K Afghan returnees

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says one of its cash-support programs, “Forcibly Returned Afghans Enrollment (FARE)” in Afghanistan, has provided financial succour to almost 40,000 refugees who were forced to return from neighbouring countries for lack of proper documentation.

In a blog post, the UN Refugee Agency narrates that over the past months, the humanitarian intervention in its Pakistan and Afghanistan offices has sought to, among other things, offer cash support to people with specific needs through the use …

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