ISLAMABAD – The United States has donated $1 million to the World HealthOrganisation (WHO) for older Afghan refugees in Balochistan and KhyberPakhtunkhwa (KP), Dawn has reported.
The donation from the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population andRefugees and Migration will fund WHO’s protecting rights of older peoplewith disabilities project, which focuses on people aged 60 or above withdisabilities, chronic diseases, psychosocial disorders and trauma and whoare survivors of gender-based violence among Afghan refugees and hostpopulations in the country.
This is the second time that the US Bureau of Population and Refugees andMigration has funded a WHO project in Pakistan. In 2010, WHO received $4mfor the health cluster response to the internally displaced people crisisin KP.
