The situation in Afghanistan has steadily deteriorated since President Biden's hasty departure last summer, with new reports revealing widespread hunger and insecurity among the general population.
The United Nations has pressed wealthy countries to contribute to the humanitarian effort to provide help to those in need, seeking almost $5 billion.
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The Taliban recently showed a desire to play a bigger role in distributing foreign aid to Afghanistan, discussing how foreign countries should best provide support.
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Some groups are warning, though, that despite the U.S.'s best intentions, assistance is expected to end up in the hands of the Taliban, with ordinary citizens not seeing any of it.
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As Fox News reports, nonprofit Save Our Allies says US aid will probably end up giving the Taliban food while the people of Afghanistan proceed to suffer.
Save Our Allies programs manager Sean Kilbrane suggests that "allocating portions to our nonprofits and organizations, here at home who are working on this, would make a [greater impact]," continuing that the humanitarian assistance in its current form does not help the most vulnerable.
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Asked to describe what might happen if sufficient support was not forthcoming, the UN emergency relief chief replied that he was particularly concerned for one million children now facing severe acute malnutrition. "A million children - figures are so hard to grasp when they're this kind of size - but a million children at risk of that kind of malnutrition if these things don't happen, is a shocking one."
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Groups alerted as far back as September that navigating around the Taliban would be hard for those seeking to give aid, given their tight control over the nation.
On Tuesday the UN issued a statement warning that "without this being funded there won't be a future," and that if the funding goal is not reached, "next year we'll be asking for $10 billion."
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The United States Agency for International Development announced not long after that the government would be giving $308 million to the pot.
"The new contribution from the United States," USAID says, "will provide life-saving aid for the most vulnerable, to include women, girls, minority populations, and people with disabilities. This assistance includes food and nutrition assistance; support for health care facilities and mobile health teams; winterization programs—including the provision of emergency cash grants, shelter kits, heaters, blankets, and warm clothing; and logistics and transportation support to ensure that aid workers and critical relief supplies can make it to the hardest to reach areas."
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The official statement insists that, "President Biden has been clear that humanitarian assistance will continue to flow directly to the Afghan people."
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