January 2009
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September 2008
2 posts
August 2008
1 post
Back in Afghanistan to Check In on Construction
I haven’t been able to write recently because I’m traveling a lot and can’t get to the Internet Cafe very often. Conditions are dangerous in Afghanistan—fighting has increased—but our school is safe. The fighting is elsewere, mostly on the highway, and not in Wonkhai village. Attackers come and go, as in a hit and run. My workers resumed construction. Prices of food,...
July 2008
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June 2008
2 posts
Construction Is Going Faster Than Expected; Girls...
The most unlikely construction dilemma has happened: the workers are working so quickly that they are outpacing our fund-raising expectations. To accomodate this, the workers have stopped construction for a few weeks.
They construction workers also told me some good news, which is that the villagers are sooooo excited about this project. Girls come up to them and ask: when will it will be...
Back in the States, I Follow Up with Contractors
I just got off the phone with my contractor, who said his workers had finished preparing the foundation and were about to start building the first floor. I have asked them to email me some pictures but there is no Internet in Wardak and the phone does not work very well either. So, they must go to Kabul to get to the Internet. Very few people have access to or knowledge about scanning photos, but...
April 2008
2 posts
Trip to Afghanistan: Construction of Circle of...
When I was in Wardak, I visited the girls elementary school that Khris Nedam built several years ago. The girls were so eager to learn that even some of the students who had already graduated had come back to school this year to repeat the same class. They were begging me to build a secondary school for them to continue their education. They were saying there is nothing else for them in their...
