Afghan Hindus and Sikhs have lived continuously in Jalalabad for many years. Previously there were 700 families, but now there are only 40-50. At the beginning of Jahadi's power, like the rest of our ...

The massacre of around 300 people in Yakaolang, which took place on 9th January 2001 by the Taliban, has been observed without much ado by the governments and media of the world. In a situation where ...

Skin lesions seen on the hands and legs of these villagers are rife in many areas. No medicine, no doctor, no NGO to help them.

Country folk discussing the drought and their manifold problems with a RAWA member. They explain how last year, despite unfavourable conditions, they were able to harvest 15 tonnes of grain from a ...

Precious water can only be used for drinking. These luckless children have not been able to have a bath or change of clothing for months. Most rural youngsters go barefoot, wear repeatedly patched and ...

These villagers are beseeching a RAWA activist to raise their cry of agony to the outside world. "We are living in a Taliban-made inferno", they say.

A open well in Okal village. Water for drinking is ceaselessly drawn by hundreds of households everyday and hot disputes and fistfights over priority in drawing water are usual occurrences.

No school or play for these children. Their lives now revolve around the critical daily chore of fetching water from far off places. They subsist on daily handfuls of rice and it is months since they ...

Lessons, books, teachers and going to school are concepts from an alien world for these young children. As if the mediaeval restrictions imposed by the Taliban were not enough, the on-going severe ...

A RAWA member talking with village women. It is since many days that Mohammad's wife has nothing to prepare for family meals except bread and weak unsweetened tea. "I can't remember the last time ...

There is no forage left to feed these emaciated animals. They can only be taken to market in the hope that they will fetch some price at the butcher's. Flocks and herds used to be the economic ...

This is the kind of water source people in these drought stricken areas have to use for drinking and other needs, and they are lucky to have even this. Infectious and skin diseases are rampant.