While her family have their meal inside a tent, a woman sits outside by a...

While her family have their meal inside a tent, a woman sits outside by a makeshift stove and prepares food using sticks and twigs collected from the barren land around the Maslakh Refugee Camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP), near the city of Herat Until draught condition improves in Bagdhis province where they have migrated from, her family will have to spend nights under these tents where temperatures often reaches several degrees below freezing. As a result of such little protection, often children and older people die from the cold. Lack of access to a food and water only aggravates these miseries Afghanistan. With ongoing conflicts and emergencies like draughts in Afghanistan and some 7.5 million people requiring international support -- two-thirds of whom are children and women -- humanitarian agencies are focussing on saving lives during the winter period. (photo)