America's North Shore Journal

Afghanistan – The Kapisa and Parwan provincial reconstruction team civil affairs leader visited a few local villages in the Kohe Safi District and met with Community Development Council representatives, June 24. The CDC, a body of elected villagers, is given special training to learn how to allocate funds and pick projects that are needed in each village. Projects are funded through the National Solidarity Program, which works through the Ministry of Rural Reconstruction and Development. “The outreach that was involved in this mission was to get to meet some of the CDCs from nine of the targeted villages in the Kohe Safi District,” said Army Capt. Steve H. Kaiser, Kapisa’s and Parwan’s PRT CA leader. “With the information gathered we will start a Quick Impact Project.” The idea behind the QIP is they calculate … Read entire article »