Peshawar-kai, a Japanese nongovernmental organization that provides medical and agricultural assistance to Afghanistan, has begun distributing emergency food aid to the drought-stricken country.
The organization will distribute until early February a one-month supply of wheat and rice to about 18,000 people in eastern Nangarhar Province. It will be the first time for the organization to provide food aid since the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
The organization announced the launch of the assistance project on Wednesday.
