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What motivates you?
Daud quickly answered –
”My only reason, the thing that gives me energy, is that I can help someone to not suffer”.
Daud Hamidi is the president and founder of the Afghanistan Youth Parliament for Water, which started its activies in 2017. He is a PhD student at Durham University in the United Kingdom, where he’s been working on a pilot project in two communities in Kabul.
His project has a two-pronged approach ; technological and social. On the one hand, technological knowledge has to be transfered – his project is about using locally sourced and available materials to provide clean water. On the other hand, they’re using what’s called intervention design, approaching the project as a collaboration between researchers and community members, where people will tell the researchers their needs, as what they think of the quality of the water.
He started the Afghan chapter after a conference in Central-Asia, where the idea was suggested to him by Sarah Dousse, ISW’s executive director. With fellow students, he believed that, as a group, they could help with the suffering due to poor water quality and access in Afghanistan – a situation that he knows very well, growing up having to walk hours for water. He believes that access to quality water is a necessity and the need to action, urgent – refering notably to schools without drinking water for its students.
As a member, he very much values the network brought by the World Youth Parliament for Water and the energy and enthousiasm of its members.
