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- 2005-2009+
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2005

Buzkashi in Mazar-i-Sharif

I had a very closeup seat at a Buzkashi match in the norther city of Mazar-i-Sharif

Camping trip to Bande-Amir, Bamiyan Valley

Working on the floor. It would be years before we had adequate furniture, and even then, we still worked on the floor

Government building in Maimana town in Faryab province, close to the Uzbek border

Maimana — I have never been anywhere so evocative of a lost time

Could not get enough of these old, abandoned merchant homes. This was a prosperous part of the world once!

View outside my hew house — streets in central Kabul were rarely paved!

My “new" old house in Kabul. Worked hard to avoid 70’s construction and find something from the 1920’s.

New office/living room — a step up from the guesthouse where my life in Afghanistan started

Scene outside of office gates in 2005 winter

One of Bande Amir’s 7 lakes

Sarah and friend overlooking Bamiyan valley

The little plane that brought my friend and I here from Kabul

A textile merchant from town kindly invited me home to show me some goods

Typical Maimana street scene

Friend who had arrived from India had to buy that fur coat the first day

Embroider receiving area

Working on the floor.

2006

Nasrullah starts building his new production facility

Construction progress on Nasrullah’s new production facility

The gradual acquisition of machinery

Monthly distribution of foodstuffs that supplemented workers' salaries

Female Maharat trainees. They often don’t like showing their faces to photographers, thus the occasional crouching and face coverup

Nasrullah and his Maharat trainees at a graduation ceremony — over the years, thousands graduated

2007

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Bande-Amir, Bamiyan Province

Panorama of Bande Amir

UN supergirl and housemate at our old compound

House party for arrival of special guests

2009 +

Acquisition of machinery, courtesy of USAID

Nasrullah finally builds himself a shiny new facility to house Maharat and his large scale manufacturing operations

Maharat graduation of training course students. Courses were self-supported and supported by outside organisations

Training programs with world-class computerised machinery

Sarah with the factory employees

Men’s mechanic course

Foreign machinist brought to train employees at the factory

Maharat classes training seamstresses for jobs that pay better than embroidery work

And more classes

Female sewing machine operators were a sight rarely seen in Afghanistan prior to Maharat's training programs

Pretty old houses in the centre of Kabul city

Fortunately some of them got immediate work

A cool 70’s style house in Kabul that I should have rented after our beautiful “Guesthouse 26” villa was demolished by the ignorant owners

Sarah at a Turquoise Mountain sponsored Maharat embroidery training project in the old city of Kabul

Friends at the opening of the Aga Khan Development Network’s restored Bagh-e-Babur gardens in Kabul

Photo of two friends inside the front security area of the famous L’Atmoshpere restaurant.