Women Afghan Journalist Eyes Bleak Future Mushtari Mashal worked hard to get a degree in journalism, a profession she has been passionate about since childhood, but despite her hard work she is still unemployed.
OneDayinAfghanistan No School for This District Chinarto, a district in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province has no access to education and hasn't for the last four decades, according to its residents. Children here have grown up illiterate for generations.
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OneDayinAfghanistan Young Carpet Weaver Makes Beautiful Designs Zaynab is an Afghan carpet weaver keeping the tradition and culture alive. She knows patterns by memory and has worked in the industry for more than six years.
Health Affordability and Quality of Medication Questioned by Afghans Afghans in the capital Kabul lament the recent increases in prices and low quality of medication while the authorities & pharmacists point to several factors.
Economy Worn Out Currency; Another Problem Afghans Have to Face Doing everyday business is becoming harder for cash-strapped Afghans in Afghanistan’s western Herat as the number of worn-out, over-used bills increase daily.
Drought Drought Hits Afghanistan’s Southwest Hard Persistent drought over the past several years in Afghanistan threatens the Khash family’s way of life, who have been farmers for most of their adult lives.
Natural Disaster After Quake, Afghans Afraid to go Inside A devastating earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province killed more than 1,000 people, wounded at least 2,600 others and destroyed or damaged 2,500 homes.
OneDayinAfghanistan Seasoned Teacher Opens School for Taliban’s Children Former Afghan teacher opens a school in his village to educate children. The village lacked access to education for years due to the continuous war in Afghanistan.
Women Factory Employing Women Makes 5,000 Breads a Day Around 50 women work at a bakery in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province producing around 5,000 homemade bread a day.
Human Rights Their Last Resort Was to Stop Breathing One of the less talked about problems among Afghan youth is committing suicide. Relatives think several factors played into their loved ones ending their lives.
OneDayinAfghanistan Discrimination Persists Despite Prevalence of Disabled Adults Afghanistan has one of the highest rates of disability in the world. In addition to suffering from disability, Afghans with the condition have to also endure society’s lack of awareness and ridicule towards them.
Drought Nimroz Residents Suffer From Water Shortage Prices for potable water have increased two-fold in southwestern Nimroz, one of the driest provinces in Afghanistan.
Women Firoza: the Backbone of Her Family Sensational Afghan woman takes care of her family while being a mountain of support for her relatives despite life’s many challenges.
Economy Taliban Apply New Fees for Roadside Stalls in Kabul Street merchants in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul lament the Taliban’s new rule; the mandatory purchase of municipality-made carts and monthly rent, which the merchants say is difficult to pay considering the country’s current economic crisis.
Economy Potter Carries on Family Business A potter in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province makes a living from the business that has been in the family for the past seven decades.
Wildfire Wildfire in Nuristan Burns Vital Source of Income Resident of one of the villages in conflict over pine nuts harvest in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province set fire to the forest after a round of discussions didn’t gain any tangible results.
OneDayinAfghanistan Paying for University by Fixing Shoes Noorullah Ahmadi’s life as a shoe cobbler in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province may have been rough, but he has paid his family’s expenses through the business for more than two decades.
Women Kandahari Women: No to Forced Hijab Afghan women in southern Kandahar want the Taliban to recognize and understand that Hijab, which has been part of the Afghan culture & Islamic rule for centuries, is not more important than preventing millions of Afghans from dying of starvation.
Women Kabul Widows Struggle to Survive Afghan widow breadwinners in Kabul struggle to make ends meet as the economic crisis continues in Afghanistan.
Women Murdered Teacher More Than a Statistic 29 year-old Khatera Noorzehi was a school teacher vocal about her anti-Taliban rhetoric following the group’s victory in Afghanistan. She was killed in the beginning of May after a group of men strangled her to death using her own scarf.
Human Rights Mistreatment, Humiliation Nothing New for Afghan Refugees in Iran Frustration with Afghan refugees in Iran reached a boiling point after an Afghan was accused of stabbing three religious scholars and arrested in Mashhad, but Afghans living there say mistreatment of refugees is nothing new.
