Photo: Chris Herlinger/CWS

Tools and Blankets
Raising the Roof

Hope can be heard in the sounds of construction echoing across the Shomali Valley, north of Kabul. There, CWS is providing 1,500 returning refugee and internally-displaced families the materials — including wooden beams, doors, and windows — needed to reconstruct their homes. The people are providing the labor. So far, some 1,000 homes have been built, including the house of Rahmuddin Huzruddin, shown here finishing his roof. “We are very thankful. This has come at a very crucial time for us,” he says.