About 36,000 refugee families living in Pakistan will receive Rs12,000 as emergency cash assistance to meet their urgent needs during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (Safron) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced the initiative in collaboration with Pakistan Post, benefiting the most vulnerable refugee families impacted by the pandemic in Pakistan.

UNHCR Deputy Representative in Pakistan Iain Hall and director general of Pakistan Post signed an agreement for the disbursement of the emergency cash grants in Islamabad today.

Hall said on the occasion that the UN refugee agency will initially target 36,000 refugee families, and if additional donor funds are secured, the humanitarian support will be expanded to many more needy families.