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After the flood, the work becomes local.

The Baghlan archive records damaged streets, temporary shelter, and field teams carrying water into affected neighborhoods.

Emergency relief field documentation

In the hours after a disaster, national headlines describe the scale. A local response has to answer a different question: what can reach this street today?

Famidi’s Baghlan archive records coordinators moving through damaged neighborhoods, carrying drinking water, and working around homes and roads affected by flooding.

A local response must answer: what can reach this street today?

The photographs are imperfect field documents, not polished campaign images. They show the conditions in which decisions were made.

Emergency giving stays flexible because the most responsible purchase may be water, food, shelter material, transport, or another immediate necessity identified locally.