Hasinhala (age 9) and Safura (age 10) with their father outside of their home in Kabul. Their home was damaged when a US bomb fell in their neighborhood, killing 9 neighbors. Both children exhibit signs of severe trauma and have stopped speaking.
Derrill Bodley plays "This Old Man" in Dari to children at the Ashiana street children's center in Kabul.
Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camp in Kabul. This was the Soviet compound. The people living here are farm families from the North who fled their villages beacuse of landmines and drought.
Boy who lives in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Kabul.
A home destroyed by a US bomb in the city of Kabul. Eight of ten people living in this home were killed, including four children. The survivors include Anefa, a widow and her son.
Azizolah (age 20). He lost his leg due to shrapnel from a US bomb that hit his house. His family is still searching for a prosthetic leg for him. As of January, the only prosthetic leg available was wooden and too painful to use.
Azizolah (age 20) and his father, Aiotola. Their home was destroyed by a US bomb, which injured Azizolah's leg, causing it to be amputated. They have a family house painting business, but because of his injury, Azizolah can no longer work. His younger sister, who was looking forward to going to school for the first time in five years cannot attend because the family cannot afford it.
Woman baking bread at a World Food Programme widow's bakery project. The widows employed here work 10 hours a day, 7 days a week and earn $23 a month.
Balloon Vendor.
Another view of Anefa's house. A US bomb fell on the house, killing eight people.
Interior of a mosque that was hit by a US bomb in a village outside Kabul.
Man showing us the damage caused by a US bomb to a mosque.
Boy painting at Ashiana street children's center.
Boy painting picutre of a woman at the Ashiana street children's center. Under the Taliban, painting images of people was forbidden.
Children in a neighborhood hit by a US bomb.
Card written by a girl at Alfatha school in Kaubl to a girl at Johnson School of the Arts in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
Girls at Alfatha school give us cards to send back to their new penpals.
Alfatha school students give us cards for their American pen pals.
HALO trust workers search for unexploded cluster bombs.
HALO trust detinates an unexploded cluster bomb dropped by the United States. Each cluster bomb contains 202 bombletts that explode separately. HALO estimate that up to 30% of the bombletts in this area of farming villages did not explode on impact and remain a danger to the civilian population.
Delegation has dinner at with the family of Akhmed, our translator on his 21st birthday. From left to right: Marla Ruzicka, Akhmed, Rita Lasar, Akhmed's mother and father, (second row) Jacquie Soohen, Medea Benjamin, Kelly Campbell.
Kelly Campbell and Derrill Bodley with children at Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camp.
Derrill Bodley talks with a boy who's home was hit by a US bomb. The boy's mother, who was four months pregnant at the time, was badly injured.
Dr Nazim of HALO Trust shows us the casing of a cluster bomb.