As Afghanistan’s economy collapses, the international community is looking for creative ways to avoid a humanitarian disaster

With little or no banking service in Afghanistan and sanctions largely banning the import of dollars into the country, organizations such as Dominik Stillhart, director of operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said. His work has increasingly turned to informal systems, including hawala, in which money is deposited, often in dollars, and then transferred out in local currency, for a fee, by merchants in Afghanistan. .