Safe water saves lives and restores childhoods: Children have to walk 40 minutes to reach the water - Afghanistan
Safe water saves lives and restores childhoods: Children have to walk 40 minutes to reach the water Format By: Ajmal Sherzai & Nahida Ahmadi My mother is sick,” says 12-year old Fariba, from Khair Abad village, in the Nawmish district of Daikundi province in central Afghanistan. “So, I have to fetch water four or five times each day. The river I go to is four kilometers away from my home.” Around 1,100 children, like Fariba, live there; they are deprived of many of their basic rights, including access to safe drinking water. The source of water for 250 families living in Khair Abad vill...
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