The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has been dire for decades. Afghanistan’s geographic location at the intersection of South and Central Asia, has made it vulnerable to almost every type of natural disaster: flooding, earthquakes, droughts, snowstorms and landslides.

With an increasingly precarious security situation since 2021, the Afghan population already makes up one of the largest displaced populations in the world. A growing 5 million Afghans are internally displaced, or are registered refugees largely in bordering Pakistan and Iran.