Afghanistan: The need after the earthquake

 

In the early morning hours of June 22, 2022, the province of Paktika in the east of Afghanistan was shaken by a severe earthquake (starch 6.1). The destruction is enormous. Over 1,150 deaths and more than 1,500 injuries were reported. Thousands of houses are destroyed. The numbers are expected to increase, because many remote villages have so far not been able to reach: the streets are bad and now also blocked by rubble. Heavy rains make the aid measures difficult. The survivors dig with their hands to look for missing family members and objects.

The villages of the Districts Baramal and Gayan, in which the Terre of the Hommes partner organization AWEC (Afghan Women's Educational Center) promotes the formation and training of women and girls are also severely affected. Here too, many people have lost their lives. The area is poor and remote, the terrain is mountainous and rugged. In many places there are now only piles of rubble where the houses built from clay and stones stood.

AWEC tries to also reach the remote villages

The AWEC employees try to reach the most remote villages, explore the situation there, to determine and help. It is already clear: food, makeshift accommodations, medication and clothing are urgently needed. Because people have their entire household items under the ruins.

 

Terre des Hommes has provided AWEC 50,000 euros so that 300 families in Baramal and Gayan are supplied with the bare most: You will receive packages with rice, legumes, food oil, salt and spices or with consumed dry food, as well as drinking water and storage containers for storing the water.

Medicine, baby food, clothing and hygiene kits with soap and women's bandages are also distributed to the needy, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers receive dietary supplements. Since almost all houses have collapsed in many villages, planning, blankets and bed sheets are also distributed so that the families can build a make -up accommodation. Anyone who gets the help is decided by the AWEC employees on site together with the parishioners. An estimated 900 children will benefit from this.