Access to water and sanitation is a fundamental human right and essential to life, health and dignity. Timely and adequate provision of clean water and sanitation services to uprooted people is particularly important, given the vulnerability of their situation. The HESDO believes that all refugees, internally displaced people and returnees should have access to adequate drinking water whether they stay in camps or in urban areas
The provision of adequate sanitation services is equally important. Proper disposal of all waste as well as control of the carriers of communicable diseases, including mosquitoes, rats, mice and flies, is crucial to mitigate health risks and prevent epidemics. The optimum benefit from HESDO water and sanitation interventions can only be achieved if communities and individuals are made aware of the links between hygiene practices, poor sanitation, polluted water sources and disease. HESDO has sufficient expertise and proficiency in designing and implementing WASH project in different areas of Afghanistan for different target groups.