KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of former Afghan and UN officials have asked United Nations Secretary General António Guterres to urgently intervene and help 1.5 million
Article 21 May 2021 Afghanistan
Thirty-nine-year-old Afghan construction worker Nick Mohammad (a resident of Faizabad in Badakhshan province), who spent a part of his life as a migrant worker in Iran, returned to Afghanistan seven years ago.
Nick Mohammad. Mohammad Masoud Samimi/ICRC
Things were already tough, but they became worse when he fell from the fourth floor of a building in March 2018 while working there. The accident left him paralyzed and bedridden, rendering him jobless and hopeless – thereby making it difficult for him to provide for his four children.
Eventually, his family brought him to the ICRC-run Physical Rehabilitation Centre in Faizabad for treatment. When ICRC social worker, Habibullah Qaderi tried to inform him about our Social Rehabilitation Programme, Nick Mohammad lamented his miserable state and was not willing to listen.