Afghanistan and Central Asia

Providing for education is a big part of a sustained aid: providing teachers, doctors, and nurses, with the tools and means to bring knowledge and self-help to Afghanistan’s citizens and to the nation as a whole.  Frequently with aid we think of supplies.  Yet knowledge is something that cannot be taken away, from the mentoring of a surgeon in an Afghanistan city to counseling mothers in a small town. 

Salaries:
The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) will expend funds to pay teacher’s salaries as well as those of doctors and nurses in the state.  The total funding of 55 million pounds will be part of the UK’s already-stated 500 million pound commitment over three years.

Medical Assistance:
Captain Everdean reports via CENTCOM that a Provisional Reconstruction Team  delivered pediatric medical care in a remote province of Zabul, where they saw 200 people and mentored local nurses in health care.  A couple of weeks ago, another team took the donkey-track to a remote village in Panjshir Province, bringing food, toys and medicine.

The International Society of the Red Crescent/Red Cross (ICRC) has been working with Mirwais Hospital for the past eleven years.  In a recent interview, the head of the Afghanistan effort discusses why they have expanded their aid from surgical support to renewing hospital infrastructure.

Legal Assistance:
450 of Afghanistan’s judges are to receive copies of Afghan law books, and the first 37 judges received their copies on August 25th, in Parwan province.

Just an update.

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