Afghanistan & Egypt in the time of the plague

[netllama]

Thanks for sharing your trip report, such a unique place to visit.  The photo of the girl waiting to go so school hits particularly hard today.

Indeed, that one guts me more than any other.  So much potential, and she will likely end up the same (or worse off) as her mother.  And that girl was still one of the lucky minority who actually had the opportunity to go to school.  Even with the relative improvements that the country experienced over the past two decades, the percentage of girls & women who were able to get an education & work outside their homes was relatively small.

Afghanistan was a literally dirt poor country under the very best of circumstances, and is now plunging back into far darker times.

There are so many people that I met during that short trip that I now wonder the trajectory of their lives moving forward.