Sweeping Snow

   Written by: Mir Aqa Atabar

In the coldest parts of Afghanistan, snow falls in the winter.  As most of the houses in some cities and villages are made of mud, the residents of these houses have to remove snow from their houses’ roofs. Some of them throw it to the alley or onto the public way and so that they face people with problems.

 The writer/producer AEPO has talked to some people about the solution of this problem.

Sherin Agha, a resident of Farza, district of Kabul province says one year a heavy snowfall took place. Most residents of the village had swept the snow off their roofs in the alley. One of our neighbors had died in those days, and there was no way to cross the alley and take the body to the graveyard.

Hayatullah a resident of Kabul province says: I live with three other families in a single house. Each family removes their roofs’ snow in the alley and create trouble to the others.

How to solve this problem?

Shireen Agha says: when our ancestors were building the houses, they have left a narrow alley to the houses and there is no other place to remove the snow to it but in recent years, the director of the village council calls people by the loudspeaker of the Masjid for collective work. All youths of the village come together and carry out the snow from the alley.

Some other people have also found the same solution to this problem.