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Dasht-e Shadyan recreational area. #Mazar #Balkh #Afghanistan Photo by Zabihullah Habibi @zabih_habibi_photography #everydayafghanistan #leisure #recreational #entertainment #everydayeverywhere #nature #naturephotography #everydaybalkh #everydayasia #green (at Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chw9_Urt3xm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Shadian #village #Kids #fishhuntıng #Fishing @everydaybalkh #everydaybalkh #everydayafg #everydayeverywhere

Sometimes, Salma bursts in tears as she struggles with her homework. She works hard to catch up after spending years out of school because her family was displaced twice. Less than 2 years ago, when she moved to Mazar, she could not read or write. Now 13, Salma goes to middle school with her two sisters, hoping to become “a doctor that treats people for free”. She knows poverty too well herself. I followed Salma, Omedah (from Faryab, shown before) and Sakina for @lemondedesadosmag to show French readers their age what it means being an Afghan teenage girl one year after the Taliban return. The three live in different places and face different challenges. For Salma, it is poverty and the fear of not being good enough in class. She lives in a house much too small for the family of 18. Her grandfather sleeps in the hall under a mosquito net, sick, but too poor to see a doctor. Her brothers had had to stop school to work—one sells vegetables, the other works as a cleaner in a hospital. Her father has lost his job as a tailor. Still, the family does its best so the three daughters can have a different future. “I don’t want my daughters to be illiterate like me, I want them to study as much as they can” says their mother Diana. Salma will not give up. She follows a very tight schedule starting at 4am, which include, of course, a lot of homework, helping her mother with housework and cooking, but also jumprope—“to become taller”. Note - girls do not keep their faces covered during class—they did this time because of the. #Balkh #Afghanistan Photo & text: Elise Blanchard @eliseblchrd. (6.4-16.22) #everydayafghanistan #girls #teenage #mazar #journalism #photojournalism #onassigment #everydayeverywhere #afghan #afghangirls #education #reportagespotlight #womenrights #everydaybalkh #everydayasia (at Balkh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLhHHENTAT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

An Afghan model prepares herself to go on stage for the first Afghan cultural fashion show in an amusement park in Mazar-i-sharif, Afghanistan. "This fashion show is one of its kind, Afghanistan has ever seen," says Nilab Azamzada, one of the Afghan models, to the journalists during an interview. "We are aware of all the struggles ahead of this movement but nothing can stop us." However, Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous countries for women; new generation of girls show courage to bring positive social changes with all the possible risks in such a conservative society. During the Taliban regime and Mujahedin, former rulers in the late 20th century, women had very little to no freedom, specifically in terms of civil liberties. #Balkh, #Afghanistan. Photo & text by Farshad Usyan @farshadusyan. #everydayBalkh, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #Instagram, #fashion (at Balkh Province)

"After three hours of speeches the crowds still pressed in and up to listen to Atta Mohammad Noor, a former anti-Soviet and Mujaheddin commander and warlord and currently the strongest political figure in northern Afghanistan who refused to step down as Governor of Balkh Province when President Ashraf Ghani fired him. He spoke today at Mazar-i Sharif’s famous Blue Mosque, or the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, for during celebrations marking the start of the Persian new year. Atta is said to have a personal wealth of more than a billion dollars, derived mostly, it is believed, from what he skims off import taxes charged at the province’s northern border with Uzbekistan. Atta disputes the claims, saying that every dollar collected at the border is accounted for and passed on to the central government in Kabul." #Mazar_e_Sharif, #Balkh, #Afghanistan. Photo & text by Andrew Quilty @andrewquilty. 21.3.2018 #everydayBalkh, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #nawroz #nowruz #newyear (at Mazar-I-Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan)

I had read "whisky is to drink, water is to fight for". Having a good water management system is an essential need for every country to tackle climate change impacts. According to climate studies, Afghanistan is among the countries that will experience extreme droughts in mid 21st century. Due to a weak water management, the Afghan government has done nothing so far except putting gabion walls to prevent seasonal floods. In this photograph, two Afghan men try to capture the sunset besides Amu river, the natural border between Afghanistan and #Uzbekistan. #Hairatan, #Balkh, #Afghanistan. Photo and text by Farshad Usyan @farshadusyan / @climatetracker, @afpphoto, @groundtruth. #everydayBalkh, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #everydayClimateChange, #Amuriver #climatechange #reportagespotlight #mobilephotography (at Amu Darya)

A burqa clad woman carrying a bunch of weed walks by a wall with a Persian sentence that reads: (The child of art revives the name of father) in #Mazar_e_Sharif, #Balkh, #Afghanistan. Photo by Ali Seena Yasa @aliseenayasa #everydayBalkh, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #Instagram, #streetart, #mobilephotography (at Mazar-I-Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan)

Cycling at dusk in #Mazar_e_Sharif, #Balkh, #Afghanistan. Photo by Shafiq Bakhtary @shafiq_bakhtary #everydayBalkh, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #Instagram, #sunset. (at Mazar-I-Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan)