Helping communities feed themselves / CARE-International Afghanistan.

Cover title.

“July-December, 1995”.

“CARE-International Afghanistan”—at head of title.

Spiral bound.

Contents: Executive summary—I. Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR)—II. Irrigation—III. Water supply—IV. Infrastructure—V. Home school pilot project—VI. Relief for Widows in Kabul—VII. Finance.

Summary: “Human nature searches for scapegoats to explain away the unexplainable. In few countries has the unexplainable rivaled the late 20th century experience of Afghanistan. One of the poorest countries in the world, Afghanistan endured a decade of un-measurable devastation at the hands of one of the world’s super powers hardly was this invader vanquished that the country for all practical purposes dissolved into fiefdoms run by rival war lords, each with its peculiar ethnic, political and religious orientation. Depending on one’s own values and orientation, there is no shortage of others on whom to blame the problems. Fingers can be pointed at the Russians, the Taliban, Whadat, Hezb-e Islam, Jamiat-e Islam, Iran, Pakistan, even Britain for those willing to go back a century. Yet ultimately the whole blaming process is fruitless. Solutions for Afghanistan will not be found in accusing or even defeating others. Solutions will be found in finding, understanding, nurturing and building upon foundations of shared Afghan values, interests and concerns”—(p. 2).

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