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Taliban launches Work-in-Trade Program for wheat in Kabul

The Afghan Taliban government launched a program on Sunday to combat hunger and unemployment, offering thousands of jobs for the unemployed in exchange for wheat.

The program will be rolled out in major Afghan cities and employ 40,000 men in the capital alone, the Taliban chief spokesman said at a press conference in southern Kabul.

“This is an important step in the fight against unemployment,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, adding that workers should “work hard”.

Afghanistan – already suffering from poverty, drought, blackouts and a failing economic system – now faces the onset of what could be a harsh winter.

Taliban launches Work-in-Trade Program for wheat in Kabul

The Taliban’s food-for-work program will not pay workers, targeting those who are currently unemployed and most likely to starve in the winter.

The two-month program will see 11,600 tonnes of wheat distributed in the capital, including around 55,000 tonnes for the rest of the country, including Herat, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif and Pol-i-Khomri.

The work of the workers in Kabul will include digging water canals and snow catchment terraces in the hills to combat the drought.

Mujahid and other senior officials, including Agriculture Minister Abdul Rahman Rashid and Kabul Mayor Hamdullah Nomani, cut a pink ribbon and dug a small ditch during a ceremony in rural Rish Khor of the capital to launch the program.

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