Since November 6, 2023, Save the Children has been promoting hygiene awareness in Spin Boldak among the Afghan returnees from Pakistan. By the end of December 2023, we had reached 6,678 returnees, including girls and boys, through awareness-raising messaging on critical times for handwashing, personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, water and food hygiene, and safe use of WASH facilities in the reception and transit centres.

Additionally, we have been supplying safe drinking water to ensure clean water for drinking and sanitation purposes for the returnees crossing through Spin Boldak. By the end of December 2023, we had supplied 56,200 litres of safe drinking water to 5,077 individuals in reception and transit centres. At the same time, we provided solid waste management tools and waste bins to the Kandahar Transit Centre (KTC) to maintain a safe environment from mid-November 2023.

We expanded our WASH services to the Takhtapul Inzargai camp after the Spin Boldak reception centre was relocated to Inzargai. We have provided solid waste bins and safe drinking water stations to the Inzargai camp for the Afghan returnees. Furthermore, we established 28 emergency latrines for use with funding support from the European Union in both reception and transit centres, with an average of 20 beneficiaries per latrine daily, totaling 5,600.