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The 75-year-old Abdul Hussain, who has been suffering from severe rheumatic diseases, is a longtime unemployed. Living in a mud-house in slum neighborhood of Barchi, Kabul, Hussain carries the heavy burden of a household—his spouse with two young children, a four-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son. Every dawn he leaves…

Mr. Wee Tech Young is a 50-year-old Singaporean aid worker who runs a non-profit organization in Kabul. Wee is a peace activist who believes the Afghans need peace more than anything else. Wee Tech Young, a 50-year-old Singaporean aid worker, comes to his Kabul-based office, every working day, to promote…

Lailuma Khaliqyar, who is a female principal in an all-girl high school in northern Parvan province, has come a long way to change locals’ attitudes toward her job.   Almost all students of Um-Salma High School in the northern Parvan province were least enthusiastic to continue and graduate high school…

Thousands of children around Afghanistan are trapped in child laboring, and they are deprived of health service, and education. As the sun rises, the seven-year-old Hamid along with his brother Mirvais, who is ten, take a long walk all the way from a slum to diplomatic neighborhood of Wazir Akbar…

Now 22, Nargis Taraki campaigns for women’s empowerment and education in her home country. She is one the BBC’s 2018 100 women. Nargis loves novel. Virginia Wolf and Oriana Fallaci are her favorite writers.

Amid war and violence, attending school remains a yet-unfulfilled dream for a large number of Afghan girls. Thousands of young Afghan girls in southern Helmand province are out of school. Schools are closed down in 13 districts of the province, and just a small number of girls in Lashkargah, the…

After school graduation in 2010, one of many wishes, Weki and Raj, two Afghan Sikh siblings, had was to attend university and get higher education. But their dreams never turned into reality in Afghanistan, a country where Sikh community is discriminated by majority of hardcore Muslims. Currently, not even a…

Faisal, an employee of a private company, who lives in Khwaja Boghra neighborhood of Khairkhana, says he lives in continuous state of fear of being confronted with robbers. “I feel fear when I leave my work for my home a little bit late,” he stated. Located in the northern neighborhood…

Out of all bad news that repeatedly make headlines about the country, Afghanistan’s U-20 Futsal team for the very first time came out of blue to make through to semi-final of Asian U-20 Futsal Championship Iran 2019. With limited resources, and amid ongoing war in the country, under 20 national…

Afghan women wheelchair basketball players work hard to qualify for next year’s Paralympic games in Tokyo. Nilofar Bayat, captain of Afghanistan’s women wheelchair basketball team, lost of her leg in a rocket launch during the Taliban regime in Kabul. Bayat, then 2 years old, was sitting with her 14 years…