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Hamid is in hurry to leave his home for work. He wants to reach the street before other street children so he may earn more money than other child labors. He takes a piece of cloth, bucket of water, and a used iron can for burning esfand seeds with him.…

On the event of international World White Cane Safety day, a group of young Afghans with disabilities in Kabul call on public to see them as equal human beings. October 15 is the World White Cane Safety Day. Every year on this day, federation of blind community launch awareness campaign…

“Using bicycle does not only save time and money but also reduces air pollution. Fortunately, a large number of students and employees have started using bicycles to get to their universities and workplaces,” says Esmat Farzad who uses bicycle on daily basis in Kabul. Esmat Farzad, who is a teacher…

“Since the start of my activity at Daricha-e-Sehath, I have witnessed people in painful condition; they neither have access to public health services nor they can afford to cover their health expenses in private medical centers,” says Qudratullah Shams, a final year student of Kabul Medical University, who is a…

In April 2020, as Kabul was under a tough lockdown to prevent Covid-19 rapid spread, Kocha ba Kocha, a group of young volunteers in the capital Kabul, took an initiative to help poor families who were in dire need relief at a time when the country was facing hard time…

The 13-year-old Hosna, who has been hospitalized for weeks in Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital, is waiting to receive call from her parents and siblings, not knowing that she is the only member of her family who has survived the deadly Parwan flood. Hosna, according to doctors, has serious injuries in…

“I was the only female medical doctor at Faizabad state-run-hospital, where just four beds were allocated for female patients,” says Wakila Karim, who has dedicated her career to serve the underdeveloped mountainous Badakhshan province. When I was a child, Ms. Karim, 55, says, I saw many mothers losing their lives…

“My gender has put me at risk of continuous harassment; people make me their subject of mockery. To avoid being harassed, I have been taking medicines to shrink the size of breasts,” says the 64-year-old Saboor, who is an intersex. Life for an intersex is not easy in the conservative…

A woman, in burqa, rushed towards me as she noticed my presence before the half-opened gate of her mud-walled house in the flood-hit area of Parwan. “My name is Suhaila and I have an 11-year-old daughter,” she told me as she revealed her face. The 35-year-old Suhaila asked me to…

“Now, I see some persons with disabilities who can walk while before they even could not stand on their feet. I’m happy and it brings me comfort,” says Doctor Mallang, caretaker of the home care team of the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) in Kabul. According to him, providing home…