Nasaji Baghrami

Nasaji Baghrami is just one of some 50 camps for internally displaced Afghans. With numbers of displaced people on the increase and no sign of governmental action to improve conditions, hundreds of thousands continue to live in harsh conditions.

Nasaji Bagrami is a camp for internally displaced Afghans. It sits on the outskirts of Kabul and is a vast expanse of crumbling mud structures with tarps and tent sheets for roofs. These structures look like ruins from hundreds of years ago.

About 360 families live here in absolutely primitive conditions, with no access to electricity, sewage system nor running water. Litter is strewn about, children wander around barefoot in the cold, barely clothed yet still smiling and playing with each other.

This is just one of more than 50 such camps across Kabul alone where tens of thousands of people live in similar harsh conditions.

Mahir Hoda Sabar, the director of Internally Displaced Persons in the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, says the number of displaced Afghans has increased by about 100,000 over the past year and has now increased above 600,000. Sabar says the government isn't having much luck in resettling the displaced in peaceful communities because residents don't want Afghans from other provinces moving into their villages and competing for limited jobs and resources.