Despite billions in aid, Afghans can’t find work (opens the original publication in a new tab)
Hundreds of men, some on crutches, all wearing tattered clothing, gather shortly before dawn at major intersections throughout Kabul and other Afghan cities. Displaying primitive tools such as a level or a trowel, they seek labor that is often backbreaking, always temporary and will earn…
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Feelings of a first hand observer of the situations in Afghanistan:
Facts that you read below, come out of the work of courageous and fearless journalists who are strong enough to stand up in the middle of a large crowd of job seekers in Kabul, friends and enemies alike, to get a job. I personally have been in the middle of a large group, I know how stressful and dangerous that can be.
As it has been mentioned in this article none of the involved parties thought of what the world did to this growing problem of Afghan people.
This has been also known to those of us who went to the aid of Afghan people not through business sector or contracts but solely and consciously for the betterment of Afghanistan and Afghan people.
In my job in Kabul I occasionally had a chance to bring up, some of the obvious issues- issues that had been brought up by those Afghans that I had associated with, to the notice of the authorities involved, just to find that I too were being brushed off.
None of us involved or not cognizant of the affairs of Afghanistan would know what is the big picture. Where loyalty of Afghan leaders and those who came to their aid lies. But it is a fact that all of those years of help and support to Afghanistan and its people, have not led to a level of trust among ordinary Afghans, nor has it brought any change in order to get them out of poverty.