#everydayherat

A tailor at the old bazaar of #Herat, #Afghanistan Photo by Arezou Ava @arezou.ava. #everydayafghanistan #tailor #bazaar #everydayeverywhere #photographer #business #cloth #everydayherat #documentaryphotography #documnetary #reportagespotlight #afghan #old #afghanwomen #everydayasia (at Herat, Afghanistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfl8MhbtO0c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

(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=

Father with children in front of a mosque in #Herat, #Afghanistan. Photo by Jafat Mosavi @jafar_mosavi. #everydayHerat, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #instagram, #mosque #islam #muslims (at Herat, Afghanistan)

Entrance to the Great Mosque of #Herat, #Afghanistan. Photo by Murteza Pedram @pedramsgallery. #everydayHerat, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #instagram #mosque #culturalheritage (at Herat Province)

Eyes hidden under burqa. #Herat, #Afghanistan. Photo by Jafar Mosavi @jafar_mosavi. #everydayHerat, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #instagram, #beauty, #burqa (at Herat, Afghanistan)

“Mabooba Amini,18, performs Kung Fu at a park in Herat province, western Afghanistan. A number of Afghan male and female Wushu practitioners are working hard to display physical and mental skills to once could get access the World Wushu Championship in China. Their coach, Sharif Rezai, 42, received training of Chinese Kung Fu in Iran during his stay as refugee a decade ago. He returned to Afghanistan seven years ago and had been teaching Chinese Kung Fu to Afghan teenagers since in Herat for body building and self-defense. In Afghanistan's conservative society where people, especially in the countryside, deeply believe in old traditions and don't allow their female family members to go out of their home except when accompanied by a very close relative, playing sports in the open air is extremely risky for women.” #Herat, #Afghanistan. Photo & text by Rahmat Alizadah @rahmatalizadah, chief photographer at @chinaxinhuanews. #everydayHerat, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #Instagram, #Wushu #girls #womenempowerment #womensports #Womenwushu #womenbrave (at Herat, Afghanistan)

Teenage girl passing by a beauty salon in #Herat, #Afghanistan. Photo by Jafar Mosavi @jafar_mosavi #everydayHerat, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #Instagram. (at Jibra'Il, Herat, Afghanistan)

Elderly man visiting a book exhibition held in #Herat, #Afghanistan. Photo by Morteza Pedram @pedramsgallery #everydayHerat, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #Instagram, #book, #exhibition, #education. (at Herat, Afghanistan)