According to a famine warning group, Afghanistan will reach crisis levels of acute food insecurity between October and January. Though the United Nations’s World Food Program will provide food aid to 15 million Afghans per month until next March, the Taliban will likely remain involved in aid distribution.

But tens of thousands of American allies still awaiting Special Immigrant Visas or refugee referral processing are facing another winter with no employment, security concerns, rising food costs, and no safe access to international food aid. Afghans supported by nongovernmental organizations may fare no better than those trying to make ends meet on their own. Since the invasion of Ukraine diverted attention from Afghanistan, many NGOs have been running on financial fumes.