Digging through the rubble of an earthquake less than three months after being devastated by floods, residents of Chitral cannot afford to wait for government help.
With temperatures already plummeting as winter fast approaches, there is no time to delay.
Sleeping under the sky at night and relying on food from neighbours, they are helping each other to rebuild in the wake of Monday’s powerful 7.5 magnitude tremor, which ripped across Afghanistan and Pakistan and killed 370 people.
“Children are