It is freezing cold in Bamyan, and as I am getting ready for another day of a journalism workshop for young women, my colleague tells me, "Mahtab, we are receiving humanitarian aid by Afghan Air force and we need your help for distribution." I told her, "Of course, count me in."
I called the local reporters and put on my warm clothes and started walking to the flight line. As we were all waiting in the cold weather, the Afghan Air force landed and I noticed American soldiers with New Zealand soldiers helping carry out the big boxes of aid to the flight line.
The director of women affairs in Bamyan, Fatimeh Kazemi was the local official to receive the aid. However, some of the back packs, warm clothes, and praying rugs were delivered to the local mosques, schools, and the local orphanage in Bamyan.
It is has been a heart warming gift for me during Christmas to be able to witness the public diplomacy among Afghans and American and also be able to share the warm experience of giving in the cold winter.
It is has been a heart warming gift for me during Christmas to be able to witness the public diplomacy among Afghans and American and also be able to share the warm experience of giving in the cold winter.
Links to International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) story and Press Release about this event.
The photo on the left, local Afghan reporters, Ali Erfan, director of Radio Bamyan and Nasser Behzad, reporter from Kilid News Agency interviewing Afghan Col. Pasha. The photo to the right, Col. Pasha talking to director of women affairs in Bamyan. Col. Pasha was the pilot for the Afghan National Air Force humanitarian flight to Bamyan.
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