In Jonobe Badrah, the long walk for unsafe water is over — a solar pump now fills the tank above the village

For women and children in Jonobe Badrah, a village in Afghanistan's Ghor Province, water once meant hours walking rocky mountain paths to fetch water that was often unsafe. Now a solar-powered borehole pumps clean water into an 80,000-litre tank above the village. It is part of a UNICEF project, backed by the Government of the Republic of Korea, that has built or repaired climate-resilient water systems — 19 boreholes, solar pumps, reservoirs and pipe networks — bringing safer water closer to home for more than 39,000 children and their families in some of the country's most drought- and flood-prone communities. 'Access to safe water is one of the most urgent ways to protect their health, dignity and future,' says Dr Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF's representative in Afghanistan.

SDG 6 · Clean water and sanitation — Mechanism: institutional program