Some background on ACAP…

Posted By: Erica
Today I accompanied the team that works on the Afghan Civilian Assistance Program (ACAP) to one of their field offices in a province near Kabul. The local staff here are extremely dedicated to the project but often overwhelmed by the challenges of operating in such a difficult environment. They cover not just their [...]

Kabul then and now…

Posted By: Erica
Fridays are the only “weekend” day here since Afghanistan has a six-day work week. On my Friday-weekend, I decided to get out of the office-home-office routine to get a better sense of Kabul. I have an Afghan-American friend here who grew up in Kabul but was sent to the States in the early [...]

First news of casualties

Posted By: Erica
I am starting to get some reports of civilian casualties through my Afghan hosts. This morning they passed along the information of a man who lost his father over a year ago. Apparently the father was shopping in the local market of his town when a US convoy passed through. There was [...]

Progress

Posted By: Erica
I mentioned briefly in another post that I’m being hosted by a partner Afghan organization. It’s a large organization, with about 300 staff, largely dispersed in 12 field offices throughout the country. The regional offices work closely with local community and civil society leaders in their provinces, so the organization as a [...]

Searching for some leads…

Posted By: Erica
Today, I met up with a man whose been working for a big international non-governmental organization here for the last year and a half. His organization has some overlap with CIVIC’s work, and when I mentioned the issue of civilian casualties he said he’d been digging for that information for months and [...]