クリスティー・ターリントンのインスタグラム(cturlington) - 8月18日 03時54分
Seeing yesterday’s news footage of planes leaving Afghanistan was more than I can bear. It brought me back 20 years when I visited Afghanistan at the start of this mess. My husband, then fiancé, could not believe that I had agreed to an opportunity to visit Afghanistan in Jan 2002. Just six months after 9/11 and I didn’t have to think twice about it to respond "yes" when I got the call from the Today Show asking if I had any interest in covering a story about @unicef and a “Back to School” campaign for girls following the Taliban’s retreat out of Kabul.
The producer and I joined our small crew at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, which was bombed in September 2008. We stayed there for a night before catching our flight to Kabul the following day. The same Hamid Karzai International airport in the news now had recently been destroyed and our plane in was one of the first to land once it opened again. I stayed with the UNICEF team in Kabul while the crew stayed in the NBC house across town. We spent the next several days visiting schools and makeshift classrooms around the city until we met Scheherazade, the 15 year old who approached us at the entrance of her school one morning. She walked right up and in perfect English asked for computers for her sisters and peers. She was open and friendly and invited us to follow her home to meet her family. They had moved to Peshawar after the Taliban came and had just returned. Scheherazade’s father had taken his daughters and wife out of Afghanistan so that they could continue to be educated. Now that they were back, they could safely attend school again.
She and all the children in these photos I took are grown now, and probably have families of their own that they would do anything to protect. Women are seeing years of progress towards their freedoms being undone before their eyes, families are displaced and need emergency food, water, and protection. Please consider donating to any of the organizations listed above in their relief efforts for the people of Afghanistan.
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