We work to improve protection and access to at least 3.7 million Afghans reside in Iran: 780,000 basic humanitarian services across ten provinces and Amayesh cardholders (long-term registered refugees); coordinate with UNHCR and other Regional Refugee 600,000 Visa holders (long-term Afghan residents in Response Plan partners in Iran, and with Iran); and 2.3 million people who joined a 2022 NRC ope. [...] Our programme ability to secure housing, keep children in school, and in 2023 will continue to focus on supporting the pro- could impact their ability to renew documentation and tracted refugee caseload and the new arrivals living in legal status on time. [...] To support children • supports the Covid-19 pandemic response by in fulfilling their right to education, our team: distributing hygiene kits to households, cleaning and disinfection kits to schools and healthposts, • provides cash assistance to Afghan families and providing hand washing stations so they can continue sending their children to • installs and repairs latrines, showers and hand school. [...] Our experts provide: • constructs community centres designed to serve • information and counselling to improve access to as hubs delivering services to Afghan and host essential services and maintaining legal status in communities Iran • provides training about basic housing mainte- • unconditional cash assistance to the most vul- nance practices and energy-saving techniques nerable to help them o. [...] Cash assis- tance is complemented with information which Livelihoods and food security helps Afghans decide on how to use it and how to Our livelihoods and food security team explores ways address their most pressing protection concerns to improve refugee and displaced families’ livelihoods • informaton on how to access identity and civ- in Iran.
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