An earthquake destroyed their water, you helped give it back!

Good news is finally flowing in Herat!

It's taken almost 12months to achieve, but your gift has now helped restore six key water sources in Herat, Afghanistan. 2,184 individuals across six communities have regained access to clean, sustainable drinking water.

The impact of clean flows deep, it helps children in so many wonderful ways.

• Eradicates water borne diseases
• Facilitates good hygiene, especially for women
• Supports climate sustainable technology
• Empowers education by enabling flushing toilets and hand washing
• Safety & protection by eliminating long walks to collect dirty water

also

• Sneaky water fights, what child doesn't love that on a hot afternoon?

Ride with the team as they do a community check in, ensuring the final water source is doing its job. Spoiler alert... it is!

Up until September 2023 your Childhood Rescue gift was providing support to these same communities in the areas of health, child protection and livelihoods.

When a series of devastating earthquakes hit Herat, a region in north west of Afghanistan in early October 2023, all of our programming pivoted to what we call an 'Emergency Response'. World Vision has worked in the Herat region for a long time supporting families who rely on humanitairan support.

The earthquake killed many people and destroyed countless homes, water sources and infrastructure. The World Health Organisation estimated the following

• 1,482 fatalities
• 2,100 injuries
• 43,400 directly affected
• 114,000 additional people required urgent humanitarian aid

After the initial few months of support, the community informed the team that rebuilding water sources was a key priority for them.

The WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) engineers along with the community elders worked to identify priority water sources and the team got to work.

Your gift helped to rebuild those six water sources.

In 2024, World Vision led 84 disaster responses across 65 countries supporting more than 35.2 million people as of November 2024.

This includes the war in Ukraine and hunger emergencies in 28 countries suffering the worst effects of a global hunger crisis.

In many of these emergencies there is no support for communities if humanitarian organisations don't reach them.

In some of the most complex and remote places in the world, your gift genuinely helps children survive.

When life changes in an instant helping people survive is our focus.

Humanitarian organisations unite with local partners to work tirelessly to source, transport and distribute essentials. Food, shelter, water, blankets and medical assistance are key in the first few days and weeks of an emergency response.

World Vision has a bold commitment to the communities we serve — we're one of the first to respond but we also stay to help communities recover.

Your gift has helped do that in Afghanistan and will continue to do so.

When the newsfeeds move on, your gift keeps working to help children survive, recover and build a future.