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Kabul Podcast -- with Mark Laity, NATO's civilian spokesman in Afghanistan - SHOP
At the Feminist Majority Foundation Afghan Women's Craft Project - VOLUNTEER
For RAWA, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
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Vacationing in Afghanistan.
A short video from thefullmonty.com, by two American filmmakers
Featured Book
The Punishment of Virtue:
Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
By Sarah Chayes
VIDEO
Sarah Chayes discusses
The Afghanistan Experience: Reconstruction in the Real World at Harvard University, 2003.
VIDEO
FRONTLINE/World's Brian Knappenberger chronicles Chayes's bumpy transformation from objective journalist to impassioned aid worker:
A House for Haji Baba,
October 2003.
PODCAST
Sarah Chayes on Afghanistan, NPR -- On Point, August 23, 2006.
BOOK REVIEW
Of The Punishment of Virtue at the San Francisco Chronicle.
Featured Music Video
Featured Organizaton
Featured Country Oct '06:
Ghana
Featured Blogs
Featured Volunteerism Site
Network for Good General Volunteerism Sites
- amizade.org
- citizens4change.org
- global citizens network
- serveyourworld.com
- sevacafe.org
- student action for change
- videovolunteers.org
- volunteerabroad.com
- volunteers for peace
- world volunteer web
Remember Afghanistan?!
Many people may wonder why I chose to start off this series of monthly webpages on international volunteerism with Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a dangerous place to be right now, but there are still ways to help. I hope the articles on this site demonstrate that if you have a strong desire to help others, you can, even in places such as Afghanistan. Below are a few stories about men & women whose passion made a difference in Afghanistan.
Susan Retik and Patti Quigley lost their husbands in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. In 2003, Susan and Patti established the Beyond the 11th Foundation to help widows in war torn areas all over the globe (there are an estimated 1 million widows in Afghanistan). To raise money they organized a bicycling trek and collected over $325,000 in the first two years. Read their story here.
In 1975, John Feight turned a love of painting into a lifelong PaintFest, bringing Paintaramas to hospitals worldwide, including Afghanistan. His foundation, The Foundation for Hospital Art, sent art to Afghanistan where it was assembled into hospital murals by U.S. soldiers.
After Toshiko Katahara spent time in Afghanistan as a UN Volunteer with the World Food Programme, she began a self-motivated campaign to raise money to build a girls' school in Afghanistan. You can read more about her remarkable story at worldvolunteerweb.org.
Video
"Afghanistan"
-- thanks tommy dolmen --