Within a humanitarian project, the Hungarian soldiers serving at Kabul International Airport (KAIA) recently handed over food packages to Afghan families in need. The distributed aid packages – which included flour, rice, sugar, salt and cooking-oil – cover the monthly staple food needs of an average family.

The assistance given by the Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) cell of the HDF Kabul International Airport Force Protection Contingent (HDF KAIA FPC) is of outstanding importance.

“One of the priorities of the ISAF mission is to assist the local population. At a meeting, Dr. Ahmad Zia Amiry, the Shura leader of the areas lying to the south and the east of the airport requested support for the families suffering from food shortage. In particular, he drew our attention to the people living in the immediate surroundings of the airport, because they can help us further increase the security of the camp”, told us Col. Zoltán Apáti, the commander of the contingent who had personally participated in the food distribution.

Implemented with the support and participation of the Kabul-based cell of the seventh rotation of the HDF National Support Element in Afghanistan, the CIMIC projects were concentrated on two areas in the immediate neighborhood of the airport. More than 200 families were given food packages in the district lying north to the camp, whose residents are, for the most part, highly disadvantaged and disabled persons, and in Khawaja Rawash District, which lies south to the eastern gate of the base, meaning that a total of some 1500-1800 people have received the aid. The families were chosen by the leaders of local communities and the elderly, who compiled a list of the people most in need.

(HDF KAIA FPC-2 PAO)