ANCC’s WASH interventions goal at improving health and quality of life among Afghan communities. Inability of access to safe water for drinking and household use, coupled with lack of knowledge of good hygiene practices and unavailability of proper sanitation facilities are major causes of water borne diseases in Afghan households, resulting in serious illnesses, depletion of scarce household assets, and even mortality among children and other at risk groups that intensively affect the food insecurity of the households through the utilization pillar.

Over the past and recent years, we had to continually improve ourselves to meet the growing need for WASH services across the country as active warfare, AWD/Cholera outbreaks and natural disasters caused great suffering and displacement.

We had to exponentially expand our emergency WASH services to cater for the immediately needs of large numbers of IDPs, returnees and host communities affected by conflicts, natural shocks and inability to access safe drinking water at rural community of Afghanistan.

Delivering hygiene messages and kits door to door is a vital component of our WASH interventions to support improvements in health/household utilization in term of food security and well-being of Afghan families, particularly women, children, persons with disability and other at-risk persons.

ANCC is the well-recognized NGO provider of WASH services in the country. Likewise, we remain at the forefront of efforts to improve WASH interventions in the country, by continuing to the WASH Cluster in partnership with UNICEF, participating in other national and sub-national WASH working groups as well as by delivering hygiene messages and kits to door to door as key component of WASH aiming household knowledge improvement and behavior change.

We maintain a forceful emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene capacity in the form of fully equipped and readily deployable Emergency Response Teams, to launch rapid Water, Sanitation and Hygiene assessments and response in the majority of country’s provinces.

While delivering emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in the early stages of a crisis can make the difference between life and death for many displaced Afghans, sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene solutions are as crucial in ensuring communities regain their dignity and resilience and embark on a journey of recovery and development. As such the majority of our programs are aimed at ensuring durable access to safe drinking water and sustainable hygiene and sanitation behavioral change.