Alexandra Boulat
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Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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An Afghan family who has abandonned their village because of the draught, has just arrived in Herat Marsak camp, seeking for humanitarian aid. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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An Afghan family who has abandonned their village because of the draught, has just arrived in Herat Marsak camp, seeking for humanitarian aid. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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An Afghan family, from the Kuchi tribe, who has abandonned it's village because of the draught, has just arrived in Herat Marsak camp, seeking for humanitarian aid. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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A young girl who has abandonned her village with her family because of the draught, has just arrived in Herat Marsak camp after a long journey throught the desert, is seeking humanitarian aid. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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A young girl who has abandonned her village with her family because of the draught, has just arrived in Herat Marsak camp after a long journey throught the desert, is seeking humanitarian aid. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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An Afghan family who has abandonned it's village because of the draught, has just arrived in Herat Marsak camp, seeking for humanitarian aid. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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Preparations for the funerals of A 8 years old child who died of cold in Herat Marsak refugee camp. His two uncles are preparing the body before bringing him to the camp cemetery under the eyes of few of his family members. -30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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Preparations for the funerals of a 8 years old child who died of cold in Herat Marsak refugee camp. His two uncles are preparing the body before bringing him to the camp cemetery. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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A man is crying at the funerals of his 8 years old grand son who died of cold in Herat Marsak refugee camp . 400 people, mainly children, have been burried at the camp cimetery since the begining of February. Facing cold winter nights, few are found dead in the morning. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitary disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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In Herat reugee camp grave yard, the relatives of an 8 year old child, who died of cold, are praying as they are burring his body. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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An afghan family, who has abandonned it's village because of the draught, has just arrived in Herat Marsak camp, seeking for humanitarian aid. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
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Afghan men are waiting for food distribution. 30000 IDP (displaced people) are leaving in miserable conditions in a camp, few kilometers away from Herat city, Western Afghanistan. Because of the draught, and the war raging on several fronts in Afghanistan, one million people are facing a humanitarian disaster all over the country. -
Afghan refugees in Jalosai, Pakistan
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This Afghan woman is weeping under her burqa, because she can no longer bear the harsh condiments of her refugee life. -
Afghan refugees in Jalosai, Pakistan
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In a tent, where she lives with 10 members of her family, this woman suffers from severe stomach cramps. -
Afghan refugees in Jalosai, Pakistan
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Afghan refugees carry water in the Jalosai refugee camp in Pakistan, 40 km south of Peshawar. This is the only humanitarian aid brought to the camp. Of the 1,200,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan, 80,000 live in the Jalozai camp, 40 km south of Peshawar, in tents in inhuman conditions.
Afghan refugees – Spring 2001
“Added to the ongoing war and Taliban exactions, the drought, which affects the country for two years now, has drawn on exodus roads hundreds of thousands of refugees.
“I have been in humanitarian work for 24 years, says Hashim Utkan of the UNHCR, and I don’t think that I would be exaggerating in saying that I haven’t seen anything as bad as that. And that included quite a number of disasters”
The situation concern not only Afghanistan but also Pakistan.
In Afghanistan, near by the Iranian border, Herat’s camp is hosting 100 000 refugees, all comming from the West and North West of the country, most of them fleeing the drought.
After a long journey down to the camp, the refugees have to face a cold winter, leaving under reed tents. 150 people died of cold during the last week of January, including 130 children.
Only Tankers from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontières provide the meager supply of water.”
Pakistan, already home to two million Afghans – some since the Soviet invasion in 1979 – now faces a major socio-economic crisis. The latest wave of 100,000 refugees is crammed under plastic sheeting in the squalid Jalosai refugee camp, a few kilometers south of Peshawar. The new arrivals have no food or shelter, and most are starving. Only Medics Without Borders tankers provide a meager supply of clean water.
An initial group of 18,000 people who arrived at the site were completely cleared and relocated on January 12 to an existing site in Shamshatoo, which is also overcrowded.
Alexandra Boulat – Spring 2001
