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WCK in Afghanistan with ‘Instant Aid’ after Deadly Earthquake

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Eastern Afghanistan | Active from September – October 2025
World Central Kitchen worked with longtime partner “Instant Aid” to serve meals to families impacted by the deadly 6.0 magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

The late August earthquake caused injuries and fatalities, displaced families, and left many without access to food and water. 

Instant Aid has established a kitchen in Nurgal, a community near the epicenter, and is serving meals to the community. Access to water remains challenging, and we are coordinating with impacted communities to assess needs. Together, we are providing thousands of daily meals to impacted residents and to patients at medical facilities.

1.5+ million

Meals served

525,000+

Gallons of water

provided

Meet our partner: Instant Aid

Instant Aid has supported WCK’s previous responses in the region. This marks the third time we have partnered in response to an earthquake in Afghanistan, after serving hundreds of thousands of meals following quakes in 2022 and 2023. Together, we also responded to flooding in Afghanistan in 2022 and to the earthquakes in Türkiye in early 2023.

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