Faces of Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s 35.5 million people live in a country about the size of Texas. It’s an arid and mountainous place filled with remote mountain valleys accessible only by foot or donkey.
Market Day in Kishem (Afghanistan)
Just south of Tajikistan and west of the highway running from Dushanbe down to Kabul sits the tidy Afghan city of Kishem. More than 60,000 people live in the Kishem Valley and once every week nearly all of them walk or ride donkeys into town for provisions. During warmer months sidewalks fill with vendors selling everything from fruit to nuts.
Payday Comes to Northern Afghanistan
Only donkeys could traverse the rocky nine-mile track running through fields of opium poppy before the U.S. arrived and