Opinion | Afghans are still trying to escape their country and find new homes, but as the world's attention turns elsewhere, the money is drying up. By LaurenMedlicott.
But in a matter of days, countries stopped evacuating people from airports in Afghanistan. In a matter of weeks, the media stopped putting coverage of the ongoing struggles faced by Afghans unable to leave the country on the front page.
I've been talking to the people still working to get vulnerable people — journalists, academics, women, artists, etc — out of Afghanistan. Their challenges, frustrations, and needs are all eerily similar, echoing a need for more resources. "I've been up since 6 a.m.
"I'm just trying not to have a nervous breakdown," Sanam Naragi-Anderlini, CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network and director of the Centre for Women, Peace, and Security at the London School of Economics said to me."My whole team is just on the edge of losing it because we're getting hundreds of notices from people all the time who want to get out of Afghanistan.
As media attention turns to other affairs, the sense of urgency to act is lost, and with it goes funding and accountability for larger organizations and governments who had promised to help.
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