KULOB, October 22, 2013, Asia-Plus — Within the framework of the project financed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Kulob-based Civil Society Support Center, Shahrvand, today conducted a charitable action on providing humanitarian food assistance to abandoned families of labor migrants.
An official source at Shahrvand says 50 abandoned wives of labor migrants received food packages.
According to him, it is not the first such an action conducted in the area within the framework of the IOM-supported project. “Over the past five months, we have provided food assistance to some 115 abandoned families of labor migrants,” the source said.
It should be noted that labor migration has an impact on the families left behind, especially those who have been abandoned. Many abandoned wives of labor migrants live with their parents or their husband’s families in order survive, but their families too are in most cases very poor, especially in rural villages.
