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Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, visited Afghanistan from 26-28 September 2021 to assess the humanitarian situation. While in-country, he visited multiple displacement sites in the capital, Kabul.

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NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, meets Abdul Bari, a shoe cobbler from Helmand. Abdul lost family members in Helmand Province last month, and had taken his three children to Kabul. With no assistance so far, Abdul Bari is making a mud-brick shelter, but knows it will be inadequate to protect his children from the biting cold of the winter here. NRC is seeking funds to scale up shelter assistance to help families like Abdul Bari to survive the winter.<br /> <br /> Kabul 26.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Will Carter/NRC
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NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, meets Abdul Bari, a shoe cobbler from Helmand. Abdul lost family members in Helmand Province last month, and had taken his three children to Kabul. With no assistance so far, Abdul Bari is making a mud-brick shelter, but knows it will be inadequate to protect his children from the biting cold of the winter here. NRC is seeking funds to scale up shelter assistance to help families like Abdul Bari to survive the winter.

Kabul 26.09.2021

Photo: Will Carter/NRC

  • Karima, 10, lives with her family in Qala-e-najaran in Kabul, Afghanistan. There are 10 members in Karima’s family, including her parents. Karima’s parents have fled war and conflict in Kapisa, a province in the north of Kabul.<br /> <br /> Karima was attending religious Madrasa previously and has not been in school or Madrasa since she has been displaced three months ago. None of her siblings and other children staying in this displaced site are in classes. <br /> <br /> The condition in this site is dire and the need is huge. Families, especially women and children are sick and there are only two latrines inside the compound for 42 families. Karima’s family pitch their water from the street well and a neighbour is offering free of cost drinking water for these families. Karima’s father goes to the city square in the morning everyday hoping to get a daily labor job. The families still rely on food that has been provided by a local company to them. <br /> <br /> “We have been displaced for three months. There is nothing for us to eat. I didn’t have a proper dinner and nothing to eat for breakfast. Even I’m hungry now and there is nothing we can eat.”<br /> <br /> Karima’s family house was destroyed in Taqab district of Kapisa and they left their home afterwards. “Our home was destroyed and now we don’t have a home and we are homeless,” says Karima. <br /> <br /> Kabul, 12.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Enayatullah Azad / NRC
  • Gulana, 37, a displaced mother in Hiwadwall IDP site in PD08, Kabul. Gulana and her family has been displaced from southern Logar Province into Kabul due to fighting and war three months ago. <br /> <br /> Gulana and her family lives in a tented shelter in Hiwadwal IDP site that doesn't have proper roofing and door and window. Gulana's seven year son, Farhadullah, was killed in Logar in cross firing. The family came to Kabul before the country fall to the Taliban on August 15th, 2021. <br /> Kabul 12.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Enayatullah Azad/NRC
  • A displaced site in Qala-e-najaran, Kabul, where internally displaced families from provinces outside the capital have sought temporary shelter. There are 42 families in this site and mostly rely on one-time food donation by a local NGO. Many of the women and children are sick and the families do not have enough cash to return back to their homes. Some won't be able to return as their homes have been demolished or damaged by war and they need winterization support as the winter is approaching. <br /> <br /> Photo: Enayatullah Azad/NRC
  • Nooria's son who works on the streets to find money and feed the rest of the family as his father went missing and his older brother became an opium addict. The compound where Nooria and her family have sought shelter is crowded with 42 families who all share two latrines. Food is scarce and most families rely on food brought to them. <br /> <br /> Kabul 12.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Enayatullah Azad/NRC
  • Nooria's family lunch is a some potatoes and dry bread that she has collected from the neighborhood. Nooria and her family live in a displaced site in Qala-e-najaran area. They have fled war and conflict in Laghman Province in the east. Nooria's husband went missing for nine months and her oldest son has become an opium addict and often comes home. Nooria's youngest son collects scrubs on the streets to feed the rest of the family. <br /> <br /> The compound where Nooria and her family have sought shelter is crowded with 42 families who all share two latrines. Food is scarce and most families rely on food brought to them. <br /> <br /> Kabul 12.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Enayatullah Azad/NRC
  • NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, meets Abdul Bari, a shoe cobbler from Helmand. Abdul lost family members in Helmand Province last month, and had taken his three children to Kabul. With no assistance so far, Abdul Bari is making a mud-brick shelter, but knows it will be inadequate to protect his children from the biting cold of the winter here. NRC is seeking funds to scale up shelter assistance to help families like Abdul Bari to survive the winter.<br /> <br /> Kabul 26.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Will Carter/NRC
  • NRC Secretary General , Jan Egeland, visited Helmandia informal settlement, where around a thousand families who were displaced by conflict in Helmand Province over the years have settled temporarily on the outskirts of Kabul City. The elders explain their situation of extreme poverty, after losing everything. Having fled from harsh conflict, they are now facing a harsh winter, and are not sure all of the community will survive.<br /> <br /> Kabul, 26.09.2021. <br /> <br /> Photo: Will Carter/NRC
  • NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, stops to try the well-pump during a visit to Helmandia 'informal settlement' on the outskirts of Kabul where around a thousand families had fled from conflict over the years, and up until last month. There over 70 such informal settlements around Kabul.<br /> <br /> Kabul 26.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Will Carter/NRC
  • NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, listens to women of families displaced by armed conflict in Helmand Province, who fled to the outskirts of Kabul. They are concerned that most organisations and institutions that provided basic services have not returned since the Taliban retook power in August 2021, and they cannot access basic health services or meet the essential needs of their families.<br /> <br /> Kabul 26.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Will Carter/ NRC
  • NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, listens to women of families displaced by armed conflict in Helmand Province, who fled to the outskirts of Kabul to an informal settlement. NRC had run an all-female engineering team to help upgrade the self-made shelters, particularly those of war widows and displaced women now heading their families, to better withstand the snow, rain, and bitter cold of Kabul's winters. Many women there expressed their fears of the coming cold winter and lean season, that they may not have enough food for their children to eat or fuel to heat their shelters, and of the domestic pressures this would also bring in this new chapter of Afghanistan.<br /> <br /> Kabul 26.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Will Carter/NRC
  • NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, listens to community leaders who fled with families and entire communities from intense warfare in Kunduz Province in 2016, in an unmanaged camp for internally displaced people in Kabul. Hayat Khan and Mohammad Gul describe the challenges of leaving everything behind and living on very little and in uncertainty, and explain that they would like to return to their areas of origin if they could afford to travel and restart their lives as the security situation now allows. However, they doubt they will ever be able to afford this, and are worried that their families will not live through the coming cold winter especially with a country facing looming economic collapse.<br /> <br /> Kabul 26.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Will Carter/NRC
  • NRC Secretary General, Jan Egeland, listens to women of families displaced by armed conflict in Kunduz Province, who fled to the outskirts of Kabul. The Char Qalai Wazir Abad informal settlement was established in 2016, after the Taliban had taken over Kunduz Province for the second time. Over the past five years, displaced people have survived on very little, and had to collect garbage to burn as cooking and heating fuel, especially during cold winter months. The women explain that their husbands and other male relatives are finding it increasingly difficult to get a day's work, and worry for the lean winter months ahead.<br /> <br /> <br /> Kabul 26.09.2021<br /> <br /> Photo: Will Carter/NRC
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