{"id":45799,"date":"2022-06-26T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/26\/we-jumped-in-the-car-as-soon-as-we-heard-afghans-race-to-help-amid-wait-for-international-aid"},"modified":"2022-06-26T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:00:38","slug":"we-jumped-in-the-car-as-soon-as-we-heard-afghans-race-to-help-amid-wait-for-international-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45799","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We jumped in the car as soon as we heard\u2019: Afghans race to help amid wait for international aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Taliban and aid agencies rushed to respond, locals were already on their way bringing much-needed support<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the 5.9 magnitude <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-130-dead-after-magnitude-quake-strikes\" title=\"\">earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan<\/a> in the early hours of Wednesday, Taliban officials and aid agencies started flooding in, carrying truckloads of food, blankets, tents and medical supplies for the victims.<\/p>\n<p>But amid the chaos of first responders was another group of Afghans &#8211; many of whom said they packed their bags as soon as they heard about the earthquake, travelling to Paktika\u2019s hard-hit Gayan district independently, hoping to help.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/26\/we-jumped-in-the-car-as-soon-as-we-heard-afghans-race-to-help-amid-wait-for-international-aid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Taliban and aid agencies rushed to respond, locals were already on their way bringing much-needed supportSoon after the 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Wednesday, Taliban officials and aid agencies &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,263,59,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-earthquakes","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45800,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45799\/revisions\/45800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}