Afghanistan
Stories
July 2010
International Radio Trainer, Mick Eccles, has spent two years in Afghanistan conducting radio operator training to improve the capacity of the radio networks and services to the humanitarian community. This is the first of three stories written by Mick about his mission.
April 2010
Kandahar, Afghanistan... A familiar name for those who follow the international news. As part of a project to install PABX’s in four locations for UNICEF Afghanistan we visited Kandahar twice.
March 2010
FITTEST member Rob Buurveld was on mission in Kabul conducting PABX training for the UNICEF team. This was Rob's first mission to Afghanistan as he tells us what it was like.
IT Emergency Management training in Afghanistan
September 2009
Back in May this year, I got the opportunity to deliver the two day IT Emergency Management field training package to the WFP ICT team in Kabul. Due to their busy schedule we had to struggle to find a time that would work for the team. To my surprise, the team put the participation of the training ahead of spending time with friends and family, and we took one and a half day off their weekend to do the training!
September 2009
"I was born in 1972, in a village in Wardak province. In 1978, when I was just 6 years old and in first class the coup that toppled the first presidential government in Afghanistan happened. It was in spring and, at that time, we used to go to school on a regular basis. The first year of the new regime passed well, the cold winter finished and when spring started some problems started as well in our province.."