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Resting time. #Aybak #Samangan Photo by Omer Khan @omer_khan_photography #everydayafghanistan #city #traditional #province #everydayeverywhere #rest #elderly #people #afghan #everydaysamangan #afghanpeople #men #everydayasia #photography #documentaryphotography #reportagespotlight (at Aybak City, Samangan) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChcR2t_NTpI/?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=

Children following a Buzkashi game on a Soviet destroyed tank in #Samangan, #Afghanistan. Photo by Chris Cenaiko @chriscenaikotravels #everydaySamangan, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #Instagram. (at Samangan Province)

An elderly Afghan man takes a nap and waits for the bus alongside Mazar-Kabul highway in Samangan province before leaving for Kabul. During the long and tiresome travels in the country is much usual for passengers to stop the buses for breakfast, lunch and dinner or taking rest for few hours. #Aibak, #Samangan, #Afghanistan Photo by Farshad Usyan @farshadusyan #everydaySamangan, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #Instagram. (at Aibak, Samangan, Afghanistan)

Children staring through a shiny hole in the remains of a Buddhist city in northern province of Afghanistan, Samangan. There are places in the world so strongly devoted to a particular religion that it is incredibly hard to believe that they have been shaped by any other faith. Afghanistan is one of those places, a country so devoutly Islamic that it seems that Islam has been around since the beginning of time, however before the advent of Islam, Afghanistan was an important center of Buddhist teaching. The once rich excavation sites have turned to rubble after decades of war and neglect, the museum collections have been looted or irreparably damaged, and the Bamiyan Buddhas, once the country’s strongest reminder of its Buddhist past – were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. Since the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, the Stupa of Takht-e Rostam in Samangan Province is arguably Afghanistan’s most impressive pre-Islamic site. Unlike other stupas, the one of Takht-e Rostam has not been mounted above ground, but it has been carved into the ground. The Afghan name Takht-e Rostam (Throne of Rostam) refers to a legendary figure in Persian culture. After the Islamization of Afghanistan, when the knowledge of the original purpose of the stupa became lost, the site became known as the place where Rostam supposedly married his bride Tahmina. The ruins are located up the hill 3 km southwest above the town of #Samangan, #Afghanistan. Photo by Najeeb Azad @najeebazad #everydaySamangan, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #buddha, #culture, #history, #heritage, #unesco, #persian. (at Aibak, Samangan, Afghanistan)

An Afghan girl with heterochromia. #Aibak, #Samangan, #Afghanistan. Photo by Shafiq Bakhtary @shafiq_bakhtary. #everydaySamangan, #everydayAfghanistan, #everydayAsia, #everydayeveryWhere, #instagram, #heterochromia #thattravelblog #LiveTravelChannel #TravelStoke #lonelyplanet #BBCTravel #justgoshoot #TheGlobeWanderer #passionpassport #theculturetrip #worlderlust #AdventureCulture #lessismoreoutdoors #departedoutdoors #earth_deluxe #worldcaptures (at Aibak, Samangan, Afghanistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Rok0JnD_f/?igshid=r2f8ubqwmq07