|
|
|
|
Stewart departs from Terminal 2 at Dubai Airport
|
|
|
|
Day 1: Lunch at Morning Star Development's Guest House in Kabul
|
|
|
|
Traditionally, Afghan meals are served in this manner.
|
|
|
|
View from the Guest House
|
|
|
|
View from the Guest House
|
|
|
|
|
|
View from the Guest House
|
|
|
|
Afghan lady in her yard
|
|
|
|
Afghan lady and boys playing on roof top
|
|
|
|
Boys flying a kite from their roof
|
|
|
|
My room at the Guest House
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balcony on the 3rd floor
|
|
|
|
Rest room on the 3rd floor
|
|
|
|
I always take pics of toilets. It's one of my strange habits!
|
|
|
|
Water heater and shower
|
|
|
|
Hall on 3rd floor
|
|
|
|
|
|
View of a Kabul street through the wind shield of the van. I had to be careful taking pictures.
|
|
|
|
Kabul Street
|
|
|
|
Kabul War Ruins
|
|
|
|
Kabul Palace
|
|
|
|
Kabul Palace
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outskirts of Kabul
|
|
|
|
Military Check-point
|
|
|
|
Kabul Palace with Armed Outpost
|
|
|
|
Kabul Palace
|
|
|
|
Kabul
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Kabul Mosque
|
|
|
|
Horse Drawn Taxi
|
|
|
|
Afghan boy on bike
|
|
|
|
Children PAYING to ride on homemade ride
|
|
|
|
Kabul Traffic
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kabul suffers from extreme drought. Sheep are in the river bed.
|
|
|
|
Kabul river bed
|
|
|
|
Alex at the Kabul Polytech Campus
|
|
|
|
Alex at the Kabul Polytech Campus
|
|
|
|
Stewart at the Kabul Polytech Campus
|
|
|
|
|
|
Homes viewed from the Kabul Polytech Campus
|
|
|
|
Morning Star Development Van at the Kabul Polytech Campus
|
|
|
|
View from Kabul Polytech Campus
|
|
|
|
View from Kabul Polytech Campus
|
|
|
|
Map of Afghanistan
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stewart with Map of Afghanistan
|
|
|
|
Most places have their own well. Many are dry due to the drought.
|
|
|
|
View of Kabul from InterContinental Hotel
|
|
|
|
View of Kabul from InterContinental Hotel
|
|
|
|
View of Kabul from InterContinental Hotel
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kabul Sign
|
|
|
|
Alex and Janet at Kabul's InterContinental Hotel. No cars were in the parking lot when we arrived!
|
|
|
|
InterContinental Coffee Shop. They have nice $3 USD Cappuchinos. Alex and Janet treated me!
|
|
|
|
Many hotels and restaurants remind their patrons not to enter with any weapons.
|
|
|
|
Day 1: Supper at Morning Star Development's Guest House
|
|
|
|
|
|
Day 2: Breakfast with Alex and Janet. Janet prepared homemade pancakes. We even had Maple Syrop!
|
|
|
|
Kabul University Teachers
|
|
|
|
Kabul University Teachers
|
|
|
|
Meeting with Kabul University Teachers
|
|
|
|
Kabul boy walking his sheep
|
|
|
|
|
|
House of Kabul University Teacher
|
|
|
|
Kabul PeaceBridge School (NGO)
|
|
|
|
Classroom (NGO)
|
|
|
|
Powerful Quote
|
|
|
|
This quote also hangs in my UAE Kitchen! Another powerful quote.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Memorable Quote
|
|
|
|
I have had a lot of experience in this area!
|
|
|
|
Memorable Quote
|
|
|
|
Partial World Map. Can you find Afghanistan?
|
|
|
|
Director of the School
|
|
|
|
|
|
Children playing in the street in front of the school
|
|
|
|
Many children play with kites. They also confiscate kites and their string if they land in someone else's area!
|
|
|
|
Fence to School
|
|
|
|
Car Bomb Blast Protectors
|
|
|
|
Street in front of school
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ancient wall in Kabul
|
|
|
|
Ancient wall in Kabul and houses on mountain
|
|
|
|
Ancient Kabul wall of protection
|
|
|
|
Ancient Kabul wall of protection
|
|
|
|
Wood poles used in construction for support
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kabul Butchery
|
|
|
|
Kabul Butchery
|
|
|
|
Kabul Butchery
|
|
|
|
Kabul Housing
|
|
|
|
New Mosque
|
|
|
|
|
|
Day 2: Supper with Dr. Qahar, Alex, and Janet at the Guest House
|
|
|
|
Day 2: Supper with Dr. Qahar, Alex, and Janet
|
|
|
|
Seed snacks. You eat what's inside the shell.
|
|
|
|
Day 2: Alex and Janet treated me to a very nice supper in a restaurant in another guest house. It had 4 security guards.
|
|
|
|
Great fellowship and good food!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Day 3: Janet prepares very nice oatmeal. I also had breakfast (2 eggs, bread, and tea) downstairs prepared by Menar.
|
|
|
|
Day 3: Breakfast. You may notice the gas light in the window. It's a useful item to have!
|
|
|
|
Day 3: Nice breakfast downstairs.
|
|
|
|
Poster of Afghanistan
|
|
|
|
Map of Kabul
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Gas Pump with Generator
|
|
|
|
New pump with generator
|
|
|
|
construction supplies
|
|
|
|
building supplies. fuel. saw dust material for wall and roof.
|
|
|
|
automotive shop. some shops are in cargo containers.
|
|
|
|
|
|
buckets of sand for fuel fires
|
|
|
|
fuel pumps requiring a generator to pump fuel
|
|
|
|
In the rural area outside of Kabul. Tangi-sagen...medical clinic. Dentist room.
|
|
|
|
medical clinic office with computer
|
|
|
|
vaccination room at medical clinic
|
|
|
|
|
|
pharmacy room at medical clinic
|
|
|
|
yard area of medical clinic supported by Morning Star Development
|
|
|
|
Future project site of Morning Star Development
|
|
|
|
Stewart visiting medical rural medical clinic
|
|
|
|
View of medical clinic from outside
|
|
|
|
|
|
medical clinic backyard
|
|
|
|
unsanitary toilet in medical clinic. I can't understand how doctors could allow their bathroom to get to this poor state.
|
|
|
|
As mentioned earlier, I'm always taking pictures of toilets in different countries. So, be careful if I visit your house!
|
|
|
|
Girl's Rural School. Curtains delivered. Sewed by Widows as a self-sustaining Morning Star project
|
|
|
|
Teacher concentrates on recording his marks for the end of semester exams.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Classroom at girl's rural school
|
|
|
|
girl's school classroom
|
|
|
|
Curtains provided for the girl's school. Work done by Widows
|
|
|
|
Teacher diligently records his marks and never looks up to see the visitors!
|
|
|
|
girl's school courtyard
|
|
|
|
|
|
seen from inside girl's school classroom
|
|
|
|
girl's rural school
|
|
|
|
Director's "office" at rural girl's school. Boy from Kabul high school came as a translator. $10 USD is the cost for a full day of translating.
|
|
|
|
girl's school classroom
|
|
|
|
Director of girl's school and Stewart
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outside view of classroom
|
|
|
|
outside view of classroom
|
|
|
|
outside view of classroom
|
|
|
|
rural community well. children collect water for home.
|
|
|
|
village boy requests that his picture be taken. notice the blood on the ground from the recently slaughtered cow or lamb
|
|
|
|
|
|
entrance of rural boy's school
|
|
|
|
rural boy's school classroom in a tent
|
|
|
|
new well being dug. school currently has no water. classrooms in the background
|
|
|
|
rural boy's school tent classroom
|
|
|
|
old well at boy's school. no water available due to the drought
|
|
|
|
|
|
boy's school tent classrooms
|
|
|
|
boy's school desks
|
|
|
|
measuring for a foot bridge to be built to cross the stream when it rains or the winter snow melts
|
|
|
|
boy's school classroom in building
|
|
|
|
translator writes a message in Dari for the headmaster
|
|
|
|
|
|
boy's school tent classroom
|
|
|
|
boy's school tent classroom
|
|
|
|
boy's school classroom. notice the wooden beams in the ceiling
|
|
|
|
ceiling beams
|
|
|
|
3 students to a desk
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stewart at boy's rural school
|
|
|
|
Educational map to teach students how to recognize and avoid deadly mines
|
|
|
|
Educational map to teach students how to recognize and avoid deadly mines
|
|
|
|
rural mechanic
|
|
|
|
in front of Morning Star Development's Guest House
|
|
|
|
|
|
in front of Morning Star Development's Guest House
|
|
|
|
in front of Morning Star Development's Guest House
|
|
|
|
Morning Star Development's Guest House
|
|
|
|
Day 3: Lunch
|
|
|
|
Day 3: Lunch. Quite nice!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Director of the Kabul Medical School (Ministry of Higher Education)
|
|
|
|
Chief Physician at Kabul Hospital
|
|
|
|
in front of Kabul Hospital
|
|
|
|
Afghan ladies on Kabul street
|
|
|
|
Kabul Library toilet. No running water. Platform allows you to stand on it so that the modern toilet can be used in the traditional manner
|
|
|
|
|
|
Head Librarian and Director of Kabul Library
|
|
|
|
Educational Concepts International (NGO) - Assistant Field Director (and Alex and Janet)
|
|
|
|
Day 4: Morning Star Development's Guest House
|
|
|
|
Day 4: My bedroom window. Gives privacy to me and to neighbors.
|
|
|
|
Day 4: very dusty morning as seen from the 3rd floor of the guest house
|
|
|
|
|
|
cart to be pulled by one to three MEN
|
|
|
|
seller of wood for fires and fuel for the winter
|
|
|
|
|
Kabul Street one block from the guest house
|
|
|
