Posts Tagged ‘afghanistan’
Canadian Forces to Distribute Wheelchairs in Afghanistan
Conservative MP Russ Hiebert, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, announced ‘Operation Mobility’, a special initiative that will see Canadian Forces personnel in Afghanistan deliver over 500 wheelchairs to disabled Afghanis. “These wheelchairs send a message that [...]
The Wheelchair Foundation Distributes Over 5,000 Wheelchairs In Afghanistan
The Wheelchair Foundation joined today with the U.S. Departments of Defense and State to distribute more than 5,000 wheelchairs to disabled Afghans, opening the project with a major distribution at Camp Watan, a high security counter-terrorism training facility in Kabul. Wheelchair Foundation [...]
Openly Dancing
Nasir Durani is the president of an indigenous Afghan/American Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Afghanistan named The Afghan Center. Upon completing a recent wheelchair distribution in Kabul, Nasir filed a report, which read in part: Kabul - Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - The capital of [...]