61. Afghan Recipes Afghan cooking (Afghan Network iNteractive) Recipes on Kababs, Kofta s, afghanistan Today - pictures of Afghani dishes including Appetizers (Bolani, http://www.afghana.com/Directories/Recipes.htm

Afghan Cooking Afghana! - Help Astray.com - 19 different recipes with descriptions. Afghans in Australia - A list of main dishes (16), extras(5) and their recipes. AsiaRecipe.com main afghan dishes: kababs, palau, kofta nakod, Qabelee palau,etc. Afghan Cooking (Afghan Network iNteractive) - Recipes on Kababs, Kofta's, bourani's, lamb, aush, banjan, chetni, etc. Afghanistan Today pictures of Afghani dishes including: Appetizers (Bolani, Ashak, Manto), Main course (Sheesh Kabab, Chaplee Kabob, Qabelee Palw, Sabzee Chalou, salata) and deserts (Firni, Jelabi, Gosh Feel) Diana's Gourmet Corner - Links to a variety of Afghan recipe dishes Mega-zine.com Afghan Chicken , Marinated Lamb Kebab Murgh Kebab (Chicken) Afghanistan Online - Afghan cooking Lill Consultants (recipe page) ParentsPlace.com Afghan Cookies (Picture) Sameer's Homepage - recipes on appetizers, main course, desert and misc.

62. Women For Afghan Women On her last trip to afghanistan in March, 2003, she distributed cooking oil to students in HAWCA’s literacy class. In addition, WAW helps support the Arbab http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/about/Projects.html

In Afghanistan WAW primarily supports the projects of two NGOs, Humanitarian Organization for Orphans and Widows of Afghanistan (HOOWA), cofounded in 2001 by Fahima, and Humanitarian Assistance for Widows and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA), founded and directed by Orzala Ashraf. HOOWA currently runs four literacy classes and assists at five others that were started by a local woman with no official support in Khair Khana, a district north of Kabul. There are generally 20-25 adult women in each class although one includes teenage girls whose families keep them from public schools because the schools are far from their villages or because they are coed. In addition, HOOWA runs two carpet HOOWA Director, Monisa, with women from the sewing class Women attending a literacy class at HOOWA Work display from the HOOWA tailoring class There are well over 1 million destitute widows in Afghanistan. They are now the sole support of their fatherless children and/or grandchildren, whose parents were killed by the Mujahideen or by the Taliban. Most widows are illiterate, have never earned money, and have no income-producing skills. Girls attending literacy class at HAWCA Click here to see Fahima Vorgett's report regarding the donations she delivered on her recent trip to Afghanistan.

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64. Chrenkoff The presidential campaign in afghanistan has officially commenced on September 7. More than 30 women are learning skills such as cooking, literacy and http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2004/09/good-news-from-afghanistan-part-4.html

@import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/1.css); Notify Blogger about objectionable content. What does this mean? BlogThis! Chrenkoff "Chrenkin' off" on the Right side of life since 1972 - - - The news and views from Down Under on politics, international affairs and culture Monday, September 20, 2004 Good news from Afghanistan, Part 4 Note : Also available from the "Opinion Journal" and the Winds of Change . As always, thanks to James Taranto and Joe Katzman for support and thank you to all the other blogs and readers for publicising the series. The third anniversary of a significant event had passed recently without much notice or commentary, not unexpectedly overshadowed by another, more prominent third anniversary. On September 9, 2001, two al Qaeda suicide bombers impersonating foreign journalists assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance. Rightly so, this event came to be seen as a prelude to S11, the opening shot in al Qaeda's renewed offensive against the West as well as its enemies within Afghanistan. Three years can make a huge difference. The presidential campaign in Afghanistan has officially commenced on September 7. Perhaps it would have been more symbolic had it started two days later, but the very fact that a country which for a quarter of a century has been successively ravaged by the Soviet occupation, a bloody civil war, and a theocratic dictatorship is now embarking on its very own democratic journey is an achievement in itself and a cause enough for celebration.

65. Peace Corps Online | Mark Ishige Served In The Peace Corps In Afghanistan afghanistan RPCV Mark Ishige s Curry in a Hurry makes Indian Food How Ishige got hooked on Indian cooking is a tale in itself. http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2784.html

Mark Ishige served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan Peace Corps Online Directory Afghanistan The Peace Corps In Afghanistan : Mark Ishige served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan By Admin1 (admin) on Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 01:09 am: Edit JANE SNOW Beacon Journal food writer Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday Entree prices: $1.95 to $4.95 Reservations: No If you must buy fast food, what a way to go. Instead of chicken nuggets and fries, a tiny restaurant in Macedonia sells speedy New Delhi chicken curry, Bangalore curried potatoes and other boldly flavored Indian dishes for diners who are in a rush but still care about flavor. Mark Ishige opened Curry in a Hurry in Macedonia Commons in September as an alternative to regular fast-food restaurants. He is able to compete timewise with the big boys by making the curries in big batches, and warming individual portions in a microwave on order. Ishige was an accountant at Cuyahoga Community College before deciding to turn his hobby into a profession. He had cooked Indian food for years for his friends, who invariably urged him to open a restaurant. How Ishige got hooked on Indian cooking is a tale in itself. Of Japanese-American descent, he had never tasted Indian food until becoming friends with a few Indians while serving in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan. They not only taught him to love Indian food, but how to cook it.

66. Peace Corps Online | Cooking cooking afghanistan RPCV Mark Ishige s Curry in a Hurry makes Indian Food 28 June 2001. cooking Carol Lloyd Peace Corps volunteer to Brazil 1974-1976 in http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/2015776.html

Cooking Peace Corps Online Peace Corps News Peace Corps Library : Cooking Cooking January 23, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Cooking July 9, 2003: Headlines: Cooking: Backpacker: Elizabeth Perrault first learned to cook on a camp stove in Africa while serving in the Peace Corps By Admin1 (admin) (pool-151-196-115-42.balt.east.verizon.net - 151.196.115.42) on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 12:57 pm: Edit Cooking: 14 April 2004 Cooking: RPCV Steven Brown oversees production of tortillas, nacho chips, salsas and other foods for Mexican restaurants in Russia 8 April 2004 Cooking: 7 April 2004 Cooking: Nancie McDermott was a Peace Corps worker in Thailand in the 1970s and since then has made a career of explaining Thai cuisine to Westerners 31 March 2004 Cooking: 14 March 2004 Cooking: RPCV Bill Derringer sends recipe from Bangladesh 18 December 2003 Cooking: Andina Restaurant opened by Peru RPCV John Platt and family in Portland 18 November 2003 Cooking: Son of Peru RPCV John Platt open Peruvian Restaurant in Portland Oregon 16 November 2003 Cooking: 16 August 2003 Cooking: 9 July 2003 Cooking: Peace Corps Central African Republic - excerpts from The Official Peace Corps C.A.R. Cookbook

67. Rebuilding Agriculture In Afghanistan Establishment of energy supplies to replace wood for cooking is key to in afghanistan, both forests and orchards have been consumed for cooking and for http://www.icarda.cgiar.org/Afghanistan/workshop/guid33.htm

A Code-of-Conduct Workshop Jointly Organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock in Afghanistan, ICARDA and FAO 21 - 23 May 2002 Kabul, Afghanistan 3.3 G uiding Principles From Crop Improvement to the Seed System: Looking Forward There are several ways to divide the agricultural production systems endemic to Afghanistan. While either six or seven agroecological zones and administrative units have been utilized to manage agricultural production, the group decided that a more productive way to view crop production systems in Afghanistan would be to first evaluate the irrigated production systems, and then to deal with the rainfed agroecologies. The irrigated areas can be divided into groups by cropping system. In the higher elevations in the north, one crop per year is commonly produced. In the plains to the west and south, two crops are generally produced per year, and near Jalalabad, three crops can be grown. The single crop per year production area is in the greatest need of rehabilitation. While currently in wheat production, cropping alternatives include vegetables, fruit trees, corn, sesame, flax, cowpea, chickpea, rye, sunflower, and potato. Wheat remains the most reasonable fall seeded crop in the two- and three-crop-per-year production areas. Alternative crops in the double-cropping system include melons, vegetables, annual forage legumes, rice, cotton, flax, sesame, mung bean and common bean. Corn is often intercropped with either mung bean or common bean in this area.

68. International And Emergency Refugee Health Gallery walk a long distance for wood to use as cooking fuel. Herat, afghanistan, 2002 A mother is interviewed in Mtendeli camp during the iron cooking pot http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ierh/Gallery/Default.htm

Gallery Images below are from the countries where the International Emergency Refugee Health Branch has participated in projects. Sampling blood by fingerstick to determine hemoglobin level. Study of Anemia in children in refugee camps. Western Tanzania, 1998. Click on images below to enlarge. IERHB Personnel list household items in a health and nutrition assessment survey. Badghis Province, Afghanistan, 2002 Maslakh Camp residents walk a long distance for wood to use as cooking fuel. Herat, Afghanistan, 2002 Sar Cheshma aab Kamari Village was used in health and nutrition survey. Badghis Province, Afghanistan, 2002 Mongolian blood specimens are centrifuged in the field with a portable generator in a nutrition survey. Mongolia, 2001 A household in Zavkhan Province was selected at random for inclusion in a nutrition survey. Mongolia 2001 Positive results from testing household salt for iodine in a nutrition survey.

69. Taiwan Pledges Support Against Terrorism World Vision Taiwan, 2002, afghanistan, Blankets, cooking utensils, buckets, plastic bags, winter clothing, shoes, and other relief provisions (valued at http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/human/antiterrorism/humanitarian_aid.h

Taiwan's Goodwill: Furthering Human Rights and Peace Human Rights Anti-Terrorism Cross-Strait Relations International Support ... Home Humanitarian Assistance from Taiwan's Private Sector Organization Year Recipient Countries Incident Description Meditation Association of the ROC US Afghanistan Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; US-Afghan war US$200,000 for the families of the US victims; US$50,000 for Afghan refugees Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Afghanistan US-Afghan war US$50,000 for Afghan refugees Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Afghanistan US-Afghan war Used clothing for Afghan refugees World Vision Taiwan Afghanistan US-Afghan war US$100,000 for Afghan refugees Field Relief Agency Afghanistan US-Afghan war 940 pairs of sports shoes (valued at US$13,905) for Afghan refugees Taiwan Pharmaceutical Manufacturer's Association Afghanistan US-Afghan war Medicine (valued at US$8,804) for Afghan refugees VIA Technologies, Inc. US Sept. 11 terrorist attacks US$1,000,000 Buddha's Light International Association US Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

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Humanitarian Assistance Taiwan Salutes About Taiwan Links ... Home Humanitarian Assistance from Taiwan's Private Sector Organization Year Recipient Countries Incident Description Meditation Association of the ROC US Afghanistan Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; US-Afghan war US$200,000 for the families of the US victims; US$50,000 for Afghan refugees Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Afghanistan US-Afghan war US$50,000 for Afghan refugees Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Afghanistan US-Afghan war Used clothing for Afghan refugees World Vision Taiwan Afghanistan US-Afghan war US$100,000 for Afghan refugees Field Relief Agency Afghanistan US-Afghan war 940 pairs of sports shoes (valued at US$13,905) for Afghan refugees Taiwan Pharmaceutical Manufacturer's Association Afghanistan US-Afghan war Medicine (valued at US$8,804) for Afghan refugees

71. Dateline ACT ACT members continue to help people in afghanistan and neighbouring wheat, cooking oil, sugar and tea for uprooted families both inside afghanistan and http://act-intl.org/news/dt_nr_2002/dtafghan0102.html

Dateline ACT Afghanistan 01/02 Across the barbed wire Geneva, January 11, 2002 ACT members continue to help people in Afghanistan and neighbouring countries: Church World Service (CWS), Christian Aid (CAID), Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA), Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) ACT members are adjusting to the rapidly changing situation in Afghanistan and are expanding their presence in the country. A new interim government is now in place and a UN peace keeping force is being deployed, while plans for the reconstruction of Afghanistan are being made by western governments, the big international organisations like UN and EU and the NGO community. An earthquake that hit Afghanistan on January 3 was minor, causing very little damage in Kabul. A few people suffered minor injuries. The earthquake had no impact on humanitarian relief programmes, according to ACT members, who are part of the extensive effort to support the people and help rebuild the country. At present aid workers are struggling to meet the basic needs of the of the people who under difficult circumstances also have to endure the harsh conditions of winter. ACT members report that people in remote mountainous areas have no food left and depend solely on humanitarian aid. ACT members continue to distribute food and shelter material to the most needy people inside Afghanistan and refugees in neighbouring countries.

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Interactive Forums Online Databases iEARN Global Website Site Map Jump To: Africa Latin America Middle East Success Story - Solar Solutions by Rowena Gerber gerberr@miamicountryday.org Rowena is the director of the Abess Center for Environmental Studies, Miami Country Day School, Miami, Florida. School and Community The Abess Center for Environmental Studies is an enrichment/resource program at Miami Country Day School. Using a project-based curriculum, students actively participate in authentic learning experiences (not mimicked, contrived lessons) as scientists, researchers, journalists, nutritionists, authors, illustrators, poets, gardeners, teachers, scriptwriters, broadcasters, cooks and young, socially conscious entrepreneurs. This inquiry-based method provides fascination for most children. How can a shoebox or tire be transformed into one of these solar magic boxes that heats up to 121°C (250°F) simply using the sun? The children do not just want a quick answer. They have a passion to understand the process. "Why, how come, what if, let’s try it again, now let’s try this, do you think this will work?" These phrases indicate meaningful, high-level thinking and reasoning. Students are constantly communicating as they build on experimental evidence, analyze, predict, interpret results, and develop questions. So, how old are these scientists, scriptwriters, journalists, business executives, and botanists? Ages four to twelve. Granted, the four-year-old will most likely hand you his super melted crayon biscuit he made in his "sun trap," but with this spiraling, project-based curriculum, that same child will be designing his own unique solar cooker by the age of eight.

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74. Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Sohrab Kabuli: Afghan Blogger In afghanistan press history we didn’t have a TV channel but we have 22 afghanistan women rights have articles about tailoring, cooking and fashion. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/07/05/sohrab-kabuli-afghan-blogge

Global Voices Online The world is talking. Are you listening? Site feed Home About Guide to Posting on GV ... Zimbabwe Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 @ 6:42 EDT Sohrab Kabuli: Afghan blogger General Participant news Afghanistan ... Weblog Global Voices Online continues to bring you interviews with winners of the Reporters Without Borders Freedom Blog Awards . This week we bring you an interview with Sohrab Kabuli (not his real name), author of two blogs: Shared Pains in Farsi and Afghan Lord in English. Kabuli answered questions via e-mail rather than by voice due to security concerns. He says he must maintain anonymity for safety reasons. Recently he received threats which , bizarrely, came from an IP address associated with a BBC server Shared Pains now has more daily readers than many Afghan newspapers. It is increasingly influential - and clearly making some people uncomfortable. Q: Can you tell us whatever is possible about who you are and what you do for a living? A: Thanks much for making this opportunity. I am 22 year old, my name is sohrab kabuli, and I am graduated from high school. I born in Kabul and living in Kabul. Beside of writing some articles to news magazine I am writing on the web to my English blog and Farsi Blog. Q: Why did you start your blog?

75. AsianWeek.com: Feature: The Country They Never Left the borrower’s business is established in afghanistan; solar cooking classes Never having visited afghanistan before, Zahir is somewhat reluctant http://www.asianweek.com/2002_05_17/feature.html

Click for our latest cover Buy our Year of the Horse poster! Home May 17 - May 23, 2002 The Country They Never Left (Feature) (in National News) Screeners Speak Out at Airport Commission Meeting (in Bay Area News) Riding to Victory (in Business) (in Sports) Spotlight on Barney Cheng Emil Amok: New Model for APA Empowerment: Just Win, Baby? (in Opinion) Stories of Afghan American women By Meg Dixit Special to AsianWeek Fleeing the communist regime, many Afghans came to settle in the United States as refugees. Immigration continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and today New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles follow the Bay Area as the cities with the largest Afghan populations in the country. The United States itself ranks third in the list of countries that Afghans have immigrated to. Pakistan comes first with about two million Afghan residents, followed by Iran, which has a population of about one million Afghans. A Rocky Escape Holding Hawa, her 14-month-old daughter, Spojmie Nasiri takes time to relax from her duties as a mother and law student. Photos Meg Dixit. Their caravan consisted of camels and donkeys carrying bags and boxes. Bundled up, the group set out for its four-day journey from Gardeyz, capital of the Paktia province, to Peshawar, Pakistan. The travel required hiking up rocky terrain and walking through dusty roads.

76. RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY and Islam to beauty and cooking. It is distributed in 12 provinces of afghanistan. afghanistan Women registering to vote in Kabul. 26 July 2004 http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/05/4629cf35-dd81-4117-a77d-baed84318b5

Top News I RFE/RL Newsline I Features I Reports I Specials I RFE/RL Experts Subscribe I Listen I RFE/RL Languages I About RFE/RL I Search I Site Map I Homepage News by Country Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bashkortostan (Russia) Belarus Bosnia-Herzegovina Georgia Iran Iraq Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Macedonia Moldova North Caucasus (Russia) Romania Russia Serbia and Montenegro Tajikistan Tatarstan (Russia) Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan News by Language Afghan [Dari] Afghan [Pashto] Afghan [English] Albanian Arabic [Radio Free Iraq] Armenian Armenian [English] Azerbaijani Belarusian Estonian Georgian Kazakh Kyrgyz Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Romanian Persian Persian [English] Russian Slovak South Slavic [Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian] Tajik Tatar-Bashkir Ukrainian Uzbek Monday, 09 May 2005 E-mail this page to a friend Print Version Afghanistan: Afghan Weekly's Founder Named International Editor Of The Year By Golnaz Esfandiari Shukria Barekzai (photo courtesy worldpress.org) A woman who founded an Afghan weekly dedicated to women's issues has been named International Editor of the Year. World Press.org a U.S.-based online publication that every year honors editors outside the United States with the award has chosen Shukria Barekzai as this year's winner. Barekzai, editor in chief of "Aina-e Zan," or "Women's Mirror," is set to receive the award in New York today in recognition of her courage, dedication to press freedom, and tireless efforts to improve women's lives in Afghanistan. Prague, 9 May 2005 (RFE/RL) This is the first time that any Afghan man or woman has been selected for the award.

77. Newsletters - Uganda Women Begin Cooking With Sun Power Incidentally, with funding from Rotary Clubs, Sun Ovens has shipped large Village Sun Ovens to afghanistan to help with cooking in refugee camps there. http://www.iesc.org/iescnews2.nsf/0/9020a6e238639ab785256b6b006e331f?OpenDocumen

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80. Salon.com Life | Will Women Change Afghanistan? Although there are still many barriers for women in afghanistan which she suicide by burning themselves with cooking oil has highlighted the issue. http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/07/16/women/

Search Salon Directory Hot Topics Anne Lamott Match Made in Heaven Match Made in Hell Marriage Since You Asked ... Lynda Barry Articles by date All of Salon.com By department Opinion Books ... Table Talk [Spirited Salon forums] How are we raising sons today? Teaching kids safety without "stranger danger." Posts of the week The Well [Pioneering members-only discussions] Wondering about the golden age of groupies? Sound Off Letter to the Editor Salon Blogs Subscribe Gift Subscriptions ... Investor Relations Will women change Afghanistan? More than two million women have registered to vote in Afghanistan's forthcoming elections – despite repeated threats and violence from the Taliban. By Duncan Campbell Last week , in the eastern province of Nangarhar, an Afghan woman was killed when the car she was travelling in hit a landmine. She had been working to register voters for Afghanistan's presidential elections, scheduled for October 9. Two weeks earlier, just south of Jalalabad, a bomb exploded on a bus carrying Afghan women working as voter registration officials, killing three of them. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility, saying it was a warning not to take part in the elections. There is still cultural unease in some areas of Afghanistan about the enfranchisement of women. Men and women register separately to vote, and women are registered by other women. Following the explosion near Jalalabad, the work of all women registration officials in the eastern and southern provinces was suspended, effectively halting, albeit temporarily, the electoral process for women. But in spite of repeated warnings from the Taliban that women should neither register nor stand for office, 2.1 million women have now registered to vote, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, the body overseeing the process. This means that 38% of the current electorate are women, overturning predictions that few would register.

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