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In pictures: At risk in Afghanistan’s winter

Internally displaced Afghans are highly vulnerable in wintertime, prompting aid agencies to donate emergency supplies.

A new UN report has found that more than two million Afghans are at risk from exposure to the harsh central Asian winter.
By Abdullah Shahood
Published On 19 Dec 2012

More than two million Afghans are at risk from exposure to the harsh central Asian winter, according to a new UN report.

These people, living in makeshift camps for internally displaced persons around the capital, Kabul, are the poorest of the poor, having fled other parts of the country.
The situation in these camps is truly grim. Last year, Al Jazeera reported about many who died due to the cold, but this year the aid agencies are hoping the situation won’t repeat itself, and the UN is delivering emergency winter kits consisting of clothing and firewood.
Last winter saw record levels of snowfall in Afghanistan, and temperatures falling as low as -16 degrees Celsius.
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Internally displaced Afghans have taken refuge in makeshift camps around the capital, Kabul.
Children are especially at risk in these camps: last winter, many died from the cold.
But this year, the UN is delivering emergency winter kits to the camps containing clothing, firewood, medicine, and other supplies.
Above, displaced families register to receive the aid packages.
About 30,000 internally displaced Afghans have made Kabul their home, according to the UN.
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Many Afghans living in camps for the internally displaced have no income and are dependent on aid.