Rural Afghanistan 2004 La Licorne Bokhoven presents Photos: Mieke and Luc

View from the air

Rough access to the field

My home is my ……

Sparce grass for grazing

Animals stay away from the thorny bush that is holding the frail soil on the hill sides

Donkeys are multi-purpose

Donkey for getting water

Donkey for getting fire-wood

Donkey for getting fire starter

Up-rooted thorny bush for sale

Drying dung

Cultivation benefits greatly from irrigation

about it ?What can be done

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

Farm Implements are supplied

The purchase of oxen is facilitated for ploughing in spring time

Improved rrigation water offtake in Nangarhar

Demonstration Plots in Faryab Province

Nursery for saplings in Badghis Province

Ford in Nangarhar Province

Artfully designed bridge

Now summing up : What can you do for us ?

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

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 Instructions on child care

Digging a well

Vaccination of Poultry

And what have you for me in store?

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

Whether having stayed or returned from refuge, all are looking out for a future

Give us a hand to achieve

It may look grim

Let hope prevail