“Being treated here is a blessing.” | Yar’s Story
“I needed to transport my things to sell them, so I took a tuk-tuk. But I chose the wrong one.”
Yar is a 24-year-old mechanic living in Afghanistan. His workshop is a 45-minute drive from Lashkar-Gah, in the southern province of Helmand. Getting around this region is difficult: to reach the market, he has to rely on tuk-tuks for transportation.
One day, on the way to work, the tuk-tuk he was riding was hit by a car. Yar survived, but the accident left him with a badly fractured pelvis.
Road traffic accidents are all too common in Afghanistan. Devastated by decades of war, road conditions are disastrous. Meanwhile, due to widespread poverty, many people have no means of transport and are forced rely on cheap but unsafe solutions.
Health facilities are also scarce. Those that are available, often private, are too costly for people like Yar, who are struggling to earn the minimum they need to support their families.
“Being treated here is a blessing,” he tells us while he takes his first steps on crutches.
EMERGENCY’s project in Lashkar-Gah, Afghanistan, is supported by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.
