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Sandbox for Afghanistan 2015 avalanches

Local and international response
Afghan army deployed 1,000 soldiers form the Kabul Corps to the Panjshir Valley, to help in the rescue efforts.

People there have told me that two of my relatives have been killed and eight others are still under the snow,” said an Afghan who goes by the single name Sharafudin. “My son and I are trying to get through to see if we can help find their bodies. But it will take us at least three or four hours to get there because of the snow and the road is very narrow, so we have to walk, the car can’t get through.”

He spoke at the mouth of the valley, where traffic moved at a crawl.

“We’ve had no help yet from the authorities, no medicines, no machinery to open the roads so we can get to the buried houses,” Sharafudin said.

https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/khalid_abdul-maruf.pdf

Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has pledged to set up a relief fund for the victims of avalanches that claimed over 280 lives, and called for international help with the relief effort.

Neighbouring Pakistan on Saturday sent two plane-loads of emergency relief goods for victims of the disaster.

We also open a relief fund for international assistance. The damages and losses caused are so huge that dealing with it is not something the government can afford on its own," he said.

least four army helicopters are dropping hot food to cut-off villages, the first food for many since the disaster last week.

https://tolonews.com/afghanistan/avalanche-victims-criticize-governments-emergency-response

https://www.mtavalanche.com/sites/default/files/Panjshir%20Avalanche%20Investigation_2015_Final.pdf AFGHANISTAN AVALANCHE CONTROL TEAM The Avalanche Control Team is comprised of four individuals who are Afghanistan’s only avalanche experts. The team was formed by the MoPW in 2012 in response to the deadly avalanches at the Salang Pass in 2010 and is trained to determine snow stability, close the road and direct artillery avalanche control. Their job is very important to keeping the public safe at the Salang Pass. The fact that there were Clearing avalanche debris from the roads in the week following the slides. 5 no deaths during this widespread avalanche cycle is a testament to their valuable work. The Panjshir Valley avalanches also illustrate the value of these experts’ and how forecasting to adjacent communities could save even more lives. They work closely with the Ministry of Defense to control the avalanche paths that threaten the Pass. Their expertise prevents avalanche fatalities from reaching record numbers. The Afghanistan government’s support of this program is commendable and necessary.

https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/ru/operations/r%C3%A9publique-d%C3%A9mocratique-du-congo/coordination-gestion-des-camps/reliefweb/disaster.name/Afghanistan%3A%20Avalanches%2C%20Floods%20and%20Landslides%20-%20Feb%202015

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/DT.ODA.ALLD.CD?locations=AF

IOM monitors the movements of Afghans within, out of and into Afghanistan due to both the armed conflict and natural disasters. IOM indicated that by the end of 2020 there were nearly five million internally displaced persons in Afghanistan,1488 of whom about a fifth had been displaced as a result of natural disasters and the rest by war violence

https://www.government.nl/binaries/government/documenten/reports/2022/03/28/country-of-origin-information-report-afghanistan-march-2022/afghanistan-aab-2022-en.pdf

https://www.ifrc.org/docs/Appeals/15/IBAFav18032015.pdf

https://www.dawn.com/news/1166494

https://fts.unocha.org/countries/1/summary/2015

https://fts.unocha.org/countries/1/recipients/2015