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After the flood, the work becomes local.

The Baghlan archive records damaged streets, prepared meals, drinking water, and repeated local handoffs.

Flood response archive 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 and handing over prepared meals and drinking water during repeated local distributions.

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

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

Disaster-response funding stayed flexible because the most responsible purchase could be water, food, shelter material, transport, or another immediate necessity identified locally.