Woman in Kabul Market

Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University: Building a School Library

Nancy Hatch Dupree, (ACKU) from the over 45,000 documents she began collecting in the 1970′s,  with her late husband, Louis. We spent a week documenting some of the  programs Nancy and her ACKU team undertake to educate their fellow Afghan citizens.

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Entrepreneur Hassina Sherjan
  • August 7, 2010
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Afghan Chronicles: Day Eight-Afghanistan’s New Generation of Leaders: Entrepreneur and Activist Hassina Sherjan

The steady stream of news from Afghanistan is dire, and has been for quite some time.

Stories of increased insurgent attacks on Afghan troops, aid workers, NATO forces, US troops, the US attacks on Afghan civilians, and the constant influx of corruption scandals within the Karzai government are the status quo.

But there are glimmers of hope.

Afghan Kids Want Laptops

Afghan Kids Want Computers

On this day we travel to a high school in Charikar in Parwan Province,  a 90- minute car drive from Kabul centre.  The school does not have electricity or running water but the students have more things on their minds.  Computers.

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Afghan catalog process

Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University-Restoring Memory After 30 Years of War

ACKU library consultant, Royce Wiles talks about the challenges of creating a library in Afghanistan.

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You can help rebuild Afghanistan one book at a time. $1 buys one book for one student. $1000 provides one school with a library. Donate today at Dupree Foundation.

Charikar Council

Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University: Parwan Provincial Council Gets a Library

Nancy Hatch Dupree and the ACKU staff visit the provincial council in Parwin Province to speak with local officials about the pilot ACKU library to have a library.

You can help rebuild Afghanistan one book at a time. $1 buys one book for one student. $1000 provides one school with a library. Donate today.

Afghan Democracy

Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University: Democracy

Nancy Hatch Dupree visits the Afghanistan Election Commission and brings representatives ABLE-published books on democracy.

Kabul Market

Afghan Chronicles: Day One & Two, Newark to Kabul

After an uneventful 14-hour flight, leaving Newark Thursday night around 11 p.m., I arrive at the New Delhi Airport on Friday around 8 p.m.

When I pass the throngs of people waiting for their loved ones, I am so excited to finally arrive in India, I smile at everyone and say, “Hi India!” Some laugh, probably thinking “great, another American dork.” I meet my driver Akosh, and my buzz kill is quickly extinguished. After a perfunctory welcome, he immediately tells me how his knees hurt because he has been standing for so many hours waiting for my plane. He talks about how he is supporting his entire family, parents, in-laws on a few rupees a month. We are still five minutes from the car.

Evening Prayer

Afghan Chronicles: Day Three, Wrong Car?

It’s freezing. I can’t believe I didn’t bring a coat. I thought it was going to be hot, especially lugging 60 pounds of camera gear. I buy a black patu or shawl. It works wonders. I am having my first night out in Kabul.

parliament 1

Afghan Chronicles: Day Four, Navigating a War Zone

2:30 a.m. I am jolted awake with a muscle spasm in my calve. I am off my exercise routine of daily running and weight lifting. Like a packed mule, I lug over 60 pounds of camera equipment, but the exercise is not the same. I move between cramped car to a shoot, scrambling to capture the story, and then settle back into a cramped car for an hour and then pounce again.

Nancygirls

Afghan Chronicles: Day Five, A School Gets A Library

Today was one of the days of shooting that will go down as one of one of the most fulfilling days of not only shooting, but most fulfilling days, period. When working on a project, there is a process.