OneDayinAfghanistan Name Calling: an Afghan Curse Muzghan Rawoofi helps her household by knitting and embroidery after returning to her hometown following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in mid-August of last year.
Crafts Afghan Artist Struggling to Survive Afghan artist Qasim Jawad is struggling to make ends meet after his unemployment since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in mid-August of last year.
Development 114 Families Receive Sustainable Electricity for 18,000 Dollars Resident of a village in Afghanistan's southeastern Ghazni province built 4 dams 16 years ago to power their village as hopes for government provided electricity in the far reaching regions dwindled.
OneDayinAfghanistan Badakhshan’s First Restaurant for Women Struggles to Keep Doors Open Opened as the first restaurant explicitly for women, Kad Banoo has been forced to allow more male patrons in order to encourage families, without whom the restaurant could not afford to stay open.
Freelance Translator Location: Home Based Role objective Alive in Afghanistan (AiA) is looking for a Translator to interpret written, audio and video pieces in Dari and Pashto, making sure to maintain their original meaning, format and tone. Translator responsibilities include reading/watching interviews and thoroughly understanding the context of given material, using
Investigative Struggling with Poverty and Trauma, Millions of Afghans Turn to Drugs Around 6 million Afghans are estimated to be addicted to drugs. Afghanistan is also the largest producer of opium in the world. Alive in Afghanistan talks to those most affected by drug use, the individuals and their families.
Investigative Afghans Call President Biden's Executive Order Illogical and Unjust “People are selling their children due to hunger” Mr. Qasim Ekhtiari, a 40 year-old professor from Daikund told Alive in Afghanistan, expressing his shock and anger at an announcement by President Joe Biden last week.
OneDayinAfghanistan Disability Does not Stop Mama Aziz 65 year-old shoe cobbler Mama Aziz Sultani became paralyzed from waist down after an accident while digging a well in Afghanistan’s western Herat province. Since then he has been taking care of his family by cobbling/polishing shoes.
Climate Eshtarlay, One of Afghanistan's Many Remote, Snowy Districts Eshtarlay, a district in Afghanistan’s central Daikundi province, is predominantly populated by Hazaras, one of the main ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
Investigative Suicide Bomber Who Killed U.S. Troops and Afghans "Likely" Used Unguarded Route to Kabul Airport Gate By: Brian J. Conley, Mohammad J. Alizada, Samira Nuhzat, Abdul Ahad Poya and Mirzahussain Sadid, Alive in Afghanistan, Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, and Lynzy Billing, for ProPublica Paths left unsecured by U.S. military sped the evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies. The attack killed 13 U.
Climate A City Without a Plan, the Hurdles of a Snowy Kabul Winter Written by Mirzahussain Sadid, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley “Kabul bay zar basha, bay barf nay.” May Kabul be without jewels but not without snow is a phrase as old as the city’s history. But snow is not always a welcome sight in the tightly-packed
OneDayinAfghanistan A Symbol of Resistance, Pakhols Stay in the Afghan Market — One Day in Afghanistan — Reporting by Khalid Khadim, written by Abdul Ahad Poya and M. Jawad Alizada, edited by Brian J. Conley ASADABAD — In a blue-tiled room jammed with sewing machines and pictures of natural spaces the eyes of several men dart between the TV and work as the cricket
Climate Heavy Rainfall in Kandahar Brings Hope to Farmers and Nuisance to City Residents Written by Nazar Mohammad Razmal Zaman, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley KANDAHAR — Recent rainfall in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province hit by persistent drought over the past several years have somewhat removed fears of continuous drought in the province. But the province is far from eradicating
Investigative Featured Report: U.S. Marines Returned Fire After Suicide Bombing, but No Enemies Were Shooting at Them by Brian J. Conley and Mohammad J. Alizada, Alive in Afghanistan, and Joshua Kaplan [https://www.propublica.org/people/joshua-kaplan] and Joaquin Sapien [https://www.propublica.org/people/joaquin-sapien], ProPublica [https://www.propublica.org/] This article was co-published with ProPublica [https://www.propublica.org/article/report-u-s-marines-returned-fire-after-suicide-bombing-but-no-enemies-were-shooting-at-them] , a nonprofit newsroom that
Culture Hospitality for Travelers, an Afghan Tradition Reporting by Mirzahussain Sadid, Abdul Ahad Poya, Abdul Karim Azim, written by Mohammad J. Alizada and edited by Brian J. Conley Afghanistan is a mountainous country in the heart of Asia, filled with breathtaking natural beauty and historical sites dating back thousands of years over which multiple civilizations left their
OneDayinAfghanistan Woman Owned Businesses at Risk in Afghanistan — One Day in Afghanistan — Reporting by Abdul Karim Azim, written by Abdul Ahad Poya, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley ZINDA JAN — In a country where patriarchy is more dominant now than ever, women continue to be cast out from the social fabric, and deprived of education
Investigative When Needing to Go Can Cost A Hospital Trip Reporting by Abdul Karim Azim, Nazar Mohammad Razmal Zaman, written by Abdul Ahad Poya, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley AFGHANISTAN — Afghanistan is traditionally a religiously conservative country that fell to the Taliban, a militant group fighting the previous Afghan government and its allies since the American
OneDayinAfghanistan Searching for Gold in Gravel — One Day in Afghanistan — Reporting By Rahmatullah Bedar, written by Abdul Ahad Poya and Mohammad J. Alizada, edited by Brian J. Conley Did you know how artisanal miners separate gold from gravel and sand off a riverbed? To find out, this time I have come to a bordertown in Afghanistan’
Investigative Sanitation, Kabul’s Mountain of a Problem Written by Abdul Ahad Poya, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley “When it rains we take the water, and wash the fecal matter down the slope, which creates a huge annoyance for people, but if we had proper sewage system, this wouldn’t happen,” this is a
OneDayinAfghanistan Afghanistan’s Southern Kandahar, Known for Finest Embroidery Across the Country — One Day in Afghanistan — Written by Nazar Mohammad Razmal Zaman, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley KANDAHAR — A small red radio set up against the wall plays a local station in the background while two women sit around it putting needles through pieces of brown and cream-colored
Economy Afghans Rush Banks; Banks Running Out of Money Written by Abdul Ahad Poya and Abdul Karim Azim, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley AFGHANISTAN — Only two months’ worth of salaries for school teachers and 20 other government organizations were deposited into their bank accounts by the Taliban government on Tuesday, nearly five months after Afghanistan’
OneDayinAfghanistan Blacksmithing, an Ancient Profession Still Alive in Afghanistan — One Day in Afghanistan — Reporting by Abdul Karim Azim, written by Abdul Ahad Poya and edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley QALA-E NAW — In the current situation where feeding a person in Afghanistan is difficult and people must knock on every door to earn something, a man
Economy Cold Winter and Colder Homes; Cash-strapped Afghans Brace for Winter Written by Abdul Ahad Poya, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley With winter approaching, concerns among Afghans across the country and residents of capital Kabul are increasing. Unemployment, rising commodity prices, increasing poverty, hunger, skyrocketing drop of Afghani’s value against the dollar and the increasing decline
OneDayinAfghanistan Mill Town, Old Fashioned but Still Going Strong — One Day in Afghanistan — Reporting By Qamaruddin Poya Aziz, written by Abdul Ahad Poya and Mohammad J. Alizada, edited by Brian J. Conley SAR-E PUL — Although technology has taken over the world, in parts of rural Afghanistan, people still use tried and true methods that have existed for centuries, one
Economy Afghan Sells Family’s Clothes to Feed Her Children Written by Abdul Ahad Poya, edited by Mohammad J. Alizada and Brian J. Conley The red polka-dot dress is hers, the white suit is her husband’s and the white track suit with black lines belongs to one of her sons. She has laid out her belongings on a walkway
