Drought response through WASH assistance in Dawlatyar and Tolak two hard to reach districts of  Ghor Province. The target area of project is Damarda village of Dawlatyar district and In Sari Poshta,Qali Fawad Sarasiab Gula Chushma, Hyderabad Takht Qala and Jurak villages of Tolak district in Ghor province.
The main source of the residents income are agriculture and livestock.
The residents of the village are from the poor clan of the society and straggle with problems on accessing to water and health facilities 
Previously dug shallow wells but due to decrease of the water table most of the wells are dried. The residents use from un improved water source which is provided form the Hiray Rood river, the streams in the village contaminates with several garbage and dirt, the water is fully unsafe and prevalence of related disease is expected, the river water contaminates with mud four months of the year and whiten the remained months of the year is openly use by animals and people wash the cloths which makes the water unsafe for drinking.

The findings obviously show that when the residents use from the water exposes them to several diseases as such diarrhea is most prevalence between the children, as the residents don’t have access to health care centers, so this putted the families in a tough situation
The pipe scheme project will durably solve problem of availability, accessibility and utilization of safe potable water in a densely populated village as outlined below:
1.	The people use unsaved river water for drinking and domestic use.
2.	In previous years aid agencies dug shallow wells and bore wells, that most of them are dried due to current drought.
3.	During the FGDs, the children complained that cannot attend to their schools because they need to bring water and it hampers their learning process because they are tired.
4.	In winter season the water of river became muddy and people cannot use, they hardly doing manual filtering and not have access to water 24 hours for weeks people cannot take bath.
5.	The children having skin problem because of using muddy water mostly in winter.
6.	In summer season the animal using the same sure of water that human use.
7.	For some of the families the distance of water (Unsafe water from River) is about 1100 to 1500 meter, which is 100% far from Sphere minimum humanitarian standards.
8.	During the day, the men’s are involve in farming and livestock activities and its duty of women and girls to pass far away to bring water during the way there is risk of protection and harms, there was harassment cases mostly for girls and women particularly late evenings.  
9.	During the visit the mission saw most of the mud and roofing works of shelters were incomplete due to lack of water while there is concern in upcoming freezing winter season.
10.	Over 14553 droughts affected people are seriously in need of drinking water if there are no interventions for durable solution before winter, people will start displacement to center of Ghor and other provinces.

The current drought has affected more than 10 provinces in the western and southern regions of Afghanistan. Considering this natural disaster NCRO and ARAA decided to take part in response to some of needy people in Dowlatyar and Tolak districts of Ghor province.
The proposed project will provide Assistance under WASH as following
1.	Construction of three deep wells and equipped with solar power water pump, reservoir and Pipe scheme to provide drinking water for 1050 drought affected families in Dawlatyar district of Ghor province.
2.	Construction of three deep wells and equipped with solar power water pump, reservoir and Pipe scheme to provide drinking water for 1029 drought affected families in Tolak district of Ghor province.
3.	Training of 950 families in hygiene awareness rising in Dawlatyar district.
4.	Training of 1050 families in hygiene awareness rising in Tolak district.