Conclusion Of Team Leader Afghanistan Report:
I want to visit displaced families, to hear their stories, to see the conditions they are living in and to find out how we can help. These people have been displaced by heavy fighting in Helmand province and have been forced to flee for their lives. I don’t even know how to begin to describe how they live. They build up mud walls, run some wooden branches or poles across the top of the wall and then use a tarp or sheet of plastic for a roof. When it rains it becomes a mud bath, there is no running water or sanitation, ablutions are done in the alleyways, the smell and filth is indescribable. There are some 1,200 families with more than 4,000 children trying to survive here, they are not receiving assistance or help and are living in conditions that would hardly be fit for animals. There is snow on the mountains not that far away and the winter nights can be bitterly cold if not freezing.