title:Deathly Cold
name:Andrea Bruce(NOOR Images)
Over 100 children froze to death in the displacement camps surrounding Kabul,
Afghanistan,in 2012. Despite the $60 billion dollars in non-military aid that has been given to the country, little reaches the poor and homeless.
Around 35,000 Afghans live in the camps, most originated from the South where they fled fighting in Helmand and Kandahar.
Two girls try pick up spilled flour from the snow. It was dropped by an aid organization that ran out of food and fuel.
A boy fights over a fire in one of 45 refugee camps in Kabul. Eight children reportedly froze to death in camps like this one during this week in Kabul.
Children who live inside the Nasaji Bagrami camp for displaced persons watch camp elders prepare Khan Mohammad,a 3 month old child who passed away due to the cold in Kabul.
Ihe mother of Khan Mohammad, a 3 month old child who passed away due to the cold,is comforted before the child is washed and buried in the Nasaji Bagrami Camp for displaced persons in Kabul Afghanistan. Khan was the eight of her nine children to die.
About 20 women from the Nasaji Bagrami camp for displaced persons gather in the tent of the family of Khan Mohammad, 3 month old child who passed away due to the cold.
Khan Mohammad,a 3 month old child who passed away due to the cold,is prepared for burial in the Nasaji Bagrami Camp for displaced persons in Kabul Afghanistan.
A family member from the Nasaji Bagrami Camp in Kabul carries the body of Khan Mohammad,a 3 month old child who passed away due to the cold. Since then,the French aid group Solidarités International has reported that at least 100 young children under the age of 5 were claimed by the cold in 2012.
Elders and family members from the Nasji Bagrami Camp in Kabul pray in front of the body of Khan Mohammad, a 3 month ofd child who passed away due to the cold early Wednesday morning,before burying him in Kabul,Afghanistan.
“There are 35,000 people in those camps in the middle of Kabul,with no heat or electricity in the middle of winter; that’s a humanitarian crisis” said Michael Keating,the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan. “I just don’t think the humanitarian story is sufficiently understood here. You’ve got a lot of people who really are in dire straits.”
The camps do not qualify for development aid because they are viewed as temporary facilities – and many Afghan officials oppose their presence. Elders and family members carry dead Khan Mohammed to the graveyard where over 100 children were buried last winter.
With the snow-covered graves of children behind him,Mohammad Ibrahim looks over the graves of at least 15 children who died of the cold in his camp in January of 2012 Many more were soon buried.