Mazar-i Sharif, Afghanistan

Burkas, Beards and Land Mines
Jan 16, 2007

... well as low-cost latrines that they people were taught to construct. The next 3 days I travel around the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif to evaluate hand pumps that have been in installed in deep wells for drinking water. The pumps are well-designed but ...

Mazar-i Sharif
Oct 9, 2007

... distress and offers his blanket, which we gratefully accept until the sun begins to warm up the bus. By the time we arrive in Mazar-e Sharif eleven hours later we both have colds. Sure it's just a common ailment, but it sure takes the glow off our heroic ...