Afghan Internally Displaced Persons - a photo on Flickriver

Maslakh (Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs) Camp is named after a once thriving business (Maslakh translates as slaughterhouse). Situated near the western Afghan city of Herat, it is home to more than 350,000 displaced Afghans according to the official count from the time of Taliban rule.
However, international aid organizations conducting a survey of the camp estimate that there may be only around 150,000 inhabitants, but it is certainly the largest such camp inside Afghanistan and among the largest in the world. A new count to determine the exact number of inhabitants is underway to better determine humanitarian needs. A vast camp of mud huts and tents under the Afghan mountains, Maslakh's temperature plunges below zero at night. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the coordinating agency for humanitarian aid to displaced people in western Afghanistan. World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF are delivering food, blankets, clothing, stoves, and other items to Maslakh's desperately poor population.
A young resident of the Maslakh Camp waits in line outside of the kitchen for the wet feeding project funded by the WFP and implemented by the NGO Hewad Reconstruction Services (HRS).
Photo ID 307847. 02/02/2002. Herat, Afghanistan. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

Some rights reserved

Taken on: November 12, 2009

Tags:

Herat

Afghanistan

UN Photo

refugee

IDP

displaced

photojournalism

worldphotography

central asia

taliban

portrait

food

meal

child « less

Sets appears in: • Children of the World • Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) more » • Afghanistan « less

Groups appears in: • World Citizens • Portraiture Photography (of real people) more » • Photojournalism • FlickrSocial (two or more people in the photo) • Global Photojournalism • All People • People of the World (no AI !) • Afghanistan • War • The silk road & Central Asia • Poverty & Children: International • Interesting Portraits ☺ [people] • Children of war, Children of peace • Photojournalism & Photojournalists • People & Portraits • Portraits That Tell a Story (READ RULES BEFORE POSTING!) • WAR IS HELL ON EARTH GROUP • People / No Children + Photo Titles • Refugee • portraits of displacement • Children of War • photojournalisme • War and Peace (10 per day) • Faces and faces - H.I.G.H.Q.U.A.L.I.T.Y. • The Flickr Portrait Gallery • The United Nations World Wide • PORTRAITS - A Gallery for your Best Portraiture • Your Best Photography • Children of The World • Social Reality • Documentary Portraiture • Share Your Best With The World • Collective Lens - Photography for Social Change • Documentary Pictures (Narrative Photography) • World Photography - Public Photos - Traveling - Life • Portrait of the world - Ritratti dal mondo • Happy-Face (Human faces) • World Traveler (Post 1,Comment on previous 3) • World Class Image (Post 1, Award 2) • Todos por la PAZ_All for PEACE (Post 1/Award 2) • Quality Portrait Photography • ||| PORTAL FLICKR ||| • World_Images(Post 1-Comment 3) • Refugee Youth • Reportage Photography and Photojournalism • The world of photography • Images around the World (Please comment on ONE photo) • People & people & people • Portraits that Matter • ! Travel and social REPORTAGE • !Portfolio of People (HIGH QUALITY, ADMIN MODERATED p1/c2) • Enfants de la terre - Children of the earth • 4tografie People & Places • M - for Message [P1/C2] • Persone people людзі lidé mennesker ihmiset gens άνθρ • A Portrait Group • Global Photojournalism; Protest, Culture, and News • EXISTentialism -- Emotions, People, Portraits • Colour Street Portraits of People • WORLD Photography (Post 1 / Award 1) • Image Portrait Gallery !!! - B&W or Color !!! • pictures we read, words we see - journalism « less

Stats: 23,186 views / 13 comments

go back

Link to this photo view:
Link to this photo large view: