Afghanistan Day 152: Humanitarian Aid in Kabul

The long-awaited day has come.  Today we took over 275 school kits, backpacks, teacher kits, donated graded readers, 100 beanie babies, candy and other treats to the girls school.  IT WAS AWESOME.  

Thank you to the Headman family and their school, Carol Imhoff, Deb G, the Vargas family, Irene Islin, my family, all the soldier's angles, anysolider.com folks, the Taylor family, and all the others who have supported our efforts thus far. 

Thank you to the US troops who provided time, energy, and security to make this effort possible, and espeically to those in KAIA billeting and Germany who also supported time and again with collection, transportation, and energy.

Thank you for taking this effort seriously and helping make a direct and immediate impact for children in Afghanistan.

These girls are attending class in a building that is under construction while the construction is on-going.  The building was bombed out in the past and UNICEF is funding the restoration.

Afghanistan Day 150 : Humanitarian Aid in Kabul

Yesterday, I went on a recon mission to prepare for the big mission to the girls school later this week.  While on the recon mission, I brought them 20 school kits from the Taylor family in Rhode Island.  THANK YOU!

 The morning walk to school.

 making progress on the repairs for the building.  Classes are being conducted inside during all stages of the construction.

Me with the class.  :)

Afghanistan Day 143: Kabul

Something GOOD!

  Here are some photos from the recent humanitarian efforts.  Donations of school supplies included many generous packages from our internet supporters (anysolider.com, soldier's angles, etc.) , also shirts from my mom, and  books donated from the elementary school I attended in Narragansett, Rhode Island.  Assembly was completed in large part by time and energy donated by US Air Force volunteers.  My favorite friends from Canada helped me carry about the stuff.  

These are some of the results:

 School kits (enough supplies for 1 year of study).

 Children's books in English. 

 Math supplies (mini- white boards)

Thank you for all that you have done to support the educational efforts of the teachers and schools in Kabul.  Thank you for helping the children of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan Day 136: Old KAIA pix- donations and volunteers

Afghanistan Day 89: KAIA (August 19)

Today was another day of wonderful care packages!

From Marilyn in SC.  Great donations for the girls' school.

Morale boosters and stuff for the kids from Heidi of MD and Carol of Texas.

Also, got two boxes of supplies from my parents in Rhode Island.

Thank you for the support!

Afghanistan Day 61: Kabul (july 22)

Today I went on a humanitarian aid mission to the girls school.

the library for 4 thousand girls

someone sent 500 dollars so we could buy microscopes and wallcharts to set up a science lab for the school.  Most of the girls are poor- so poor they cannot even buy a pencil. 

camera shy 8th grade class...

The chalkboard in their classroom.

After that we went to the Afghan Fort, Bala Hissar.  You can read about the history on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala_Hissar

After that we stopped at a British Cemetery, Sherpur Cantonment Cemetery.  This burial ground contains the memorials of many, and it is a quiet sweet spot of repose.  We only were there for a few moments, I wish I could have explored more deeply (you know me and headstones).  Still, it was a great glimpse.