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A father and son waiting outside Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar city, waiting to meet a new brother or sister. #Kandahar #Afghanistan Photo & Words by Lynzy Billing @lynzybilling. #everydayafghanistan #fathers #afghan #everydayeverywhere #children #photojournalism #health #village #everydaykandahar #humanrights #work #aid #NGO #everydayhealth #everydayasia #reportagespotlight #afghanchildren #hospital #reportagephotography #happiness #womensharecultures #billinglynzy (at Kandahar, Afghanistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdvdRBBt_yr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(5/7) 40-year-old Faizmuhammad lives in Khwaja Baghlanak village in Samangan Province with his wife and three children. The oldest child is 10 years old and the youngest is two years old.

He built his house himself and has lived here for ten years. 

Many men in this area are farmers, others are shepherds he says. Faizmuhammad works as a labourer when he can find work.

“If I can find work, I can get 300 Afghanis a day. But for a long time we did not have work and in spring, there will still be no job security. Maybe some days I will be lucky and find work but I don’t know if I will find enough work.”

His wife cannot work because she needs to stay home to look after their two year old daughter.

“There was a drought and war and a very bad situation for us. The biggest difficulty for me is that I have no income. There is no stable income for my life. The thing we need most is food. We don't have anything to eat. We were selling our home appliances for food.”

There is no school in the village and his children are not getting an education because the closest school is too far away and he does not have the money to pay for their journey, he says.

“We don’t have water in this area for drinking. The water is 50 meters below ground and we do not have the means to dig a well and put a pump. We are taking the containers to collect water and bring it back to the village. I have to make two or three journeys to the river every week. Right now we travel 1 hour each way.” #Samangan #Afghanistan Photo & Words by Lynzy Billing @lynzybilling. #everydayafghanistan #fathers #afghan #everydayeverywhere #children #photojournalism #unemployment #crises #economiccrisis #village #humanrights #work #aid #NGO #everydayherat #everydayasia #reportagespotlight #afghanchildren #reportagephotography #SDGS #poverty #womensharecultures #billinglynzy (at Samangan Province) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdlLSs7Nzc-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(3/7) Mohammadullah and his wife live with their five children in a house which he has built himself in Payanshahr village in Badakhshan Province.

“All we have is here, around us, we don’t have any other things,” he says gesturing to the small room. At the center is a Sandali Stove, a popular heating method during the winter. Beside the Sandali stove are two toshak cushions. 

“I am a labourer and during the winter we are always jobless because it is in the summer that people need workers,” says Mohammadullah. “We haven't got anything to eat, or for my life or for my children's education. We don't have anything and we don't have access to anything.”

“Sometimes I will find work in this village and sometimes I go to the center of the province. At the end of this month I will try to start my labour work again. Sometimes I work in buildings and sometimes farming, half half. Wherever I can find work.”

Mohammadullah says that if he can’t find work he will go to Iran or some other country to look for work. #Badakhshan #Afghanistan Photo & Words by Lynzy Billing @lynzybilling. #everydayafghanistan #fathers #afghan #everydayeverywhere #children #photojournalism #unemployment #crises #economiccrisis #village #humanrights #work #aid #NGO #everydaybadakhshan #everydayasia #reportagespotlight #afghanchildren #reportagephotography #SDGS #poverty #womensharecultures (at Badakhshan Province) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdVvp2yNHYU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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