Rural Afghanistan

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La Licorne Bokhoven presents
Rural Afghanistan 2004
Photos Mieke and Luc
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View from the air
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Rough access to the field
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My home is my
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Sparce grass for grazing
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Animals stay away from the thorny bush that is
holding the frail soil on the hill sides
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Donkeys are multi-purpose
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Donkey for getting water
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Donkey for getting fire-wood
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Donkey for getting fire starter
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Up-rooted thorny bush for sale
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Drying dung
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Cultivation benefits greatly from irrigation
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about it ?
What can be done
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The villagers are being organised so they can
discuss and tell what they actually need Health
and education are high on the list, and material
needs are essential, such as Nearby and safe
drinking water land for growing wheat supplies
and know-how for crop diversification inputs and
irrigation water for higher yields fodder and
water for animals fire and building
wood reasonable prices for inputs and products
Awareness is being build that it can pay off to
work together. Take the purchase of farm inputs
and marketing the management of irrigation
water and communal grazing- and woodland
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Farm Implements are supplied
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The purchase of oxen is facilitated for ploughing
in spring time
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Improved rrigation water offtake in Nangarhar
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Demonstration Plots in Faryab Province
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Nursery for saplings in Badghis Province
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Ford in Nangarhar Province
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Artfully designed bridge
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Now summing up What can you do for us ?
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Women are being organised to exchange experience
and views to build their awareness and to give
them a voice in community affairs to engage in
common interests to receive extension on
householding and child care to be trained for
income generating activities including kitchen
gardening and the keeping of sheep, goats and
chicken
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Instructions on child care

• In the frame of the water supply programme
• education on Health Hygiene is given
• Subjects that are raised concern inter alia
• The importance of safe drinking water
• How to stay away from contamination
• General diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea
  problems
• Vaccination programmes

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Digging a well
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Vaccination of Poultry
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And what have you for me in store?
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The younger ones will benefit from nutrition,
education and health programmes They gain from
safe drinking water, while the proximity of water
will discharge them from fetching it from great
distance thus enabling them to play, to attend
school and to give a hand in the household and on
the land
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Whether having stayed or returned from refuge,
all are looking out for a future
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Give us a hand to achieve
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It may look grim
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Let hope prevail