Jack Gruber | Photojournalist

Rozia, 11, stands along the mudpacked walls of the village of Anbar Somuch twenty-five kilometers west of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan. She returned with her family after fleeing the Taliban regime returning to a destroyed home. With the help of villagers and world aid organizations, families might make it through the first winter back home in Anbar Somuch.

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