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Locally grown roasted peanuts will be ground and mixed with sugar, cooking oil, powdered milk and children's liquid vitamins to create Ready to Use Therapeutic Food doses or Qavi Ghiza (Pashtu for

This is an amazing story and ought to have been covered in detail by the main stream media.

When it came to facing the issue of malnutrition, a local Afghani public heath administrator provided the team with a starting point. Dr. Zamarai Sultan, the Qalat public health administrator, shared some information with Doctor Arnold about [...]

“The Taliban works to say we are infidels. I think the people we affect with our work see that we are trying to learn their ways and see that we are trying to adapt to their way. We are trying to find ways to help them, while respecting their culture. An acceptance based on this will allow us to take big steps forward in working ourselves out of a job.”