Constrõem escolas em Hindu Kush. Mas a segurança militar sempre recebe uma prioridade maior que o desenvolvimento, e há dinheiro para bombas, mas não para os livros escolares.

Noorullah Delawari, an Afghani American who is founder and CEO of the Afghan Investment Support Agency, as well as Minister Adviser to President Karzai, says his long connection with Initiatives of Change helped him to take responsibility for his country—including the enormous task of restoring stability to the currency. He told his story to an Initiatives of Change meeting in McLean, Virginia, in October.

Construyendo escuelas en el Hindu Kush. Pero la seguridad militar siempre consigue mayor prioridad que el desarrollo, hay dinero para bombas pero no para libros.

Building schools in the Hindu Kush. But military security always gets a higher priority than development, and there’s money for bombs but not for school books.

La autora, poeta e intérprete afgana, Shabibi Shah, compartió su reflexión personal sobre su valiente historia de vida durante el lanzamiento de la última edición de su libro "Where do I Belong?" (¿A dónde pertenezco?) Respondió a las preguntas dirigidas por la periodista Mary Lean en el Foro de Greencoat, celebrado el 11 de noviembre en el Centro de Iniciativas de Cambio en Londres.

Afghan author, poet and interpreter Shabibi Shah gave a personal insight into her courageous life story at the launch of the latest edition of her book Where do I Belong? She answered questions put to her by journalist Mary Lean at a Greencoat Forum held in the London Centre for Initiatives of Change on 11 November.

My love of China comes from working with these wonderful, hard-working people in rural settings, providing them with the opportunity and dignity they deserve.

Shabibi Shah has been longing to return home for 22 years: the reality was a shock.

Torabi (28) left Kabul in 1992, when he was 16, and fled with his whole family to Peshawar in Pakistan. Before their exile, his father had managed a hospital in Kabul.