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I am a doctor and set up Afghan Connection (AC) in 2002 following several working visits to Afghanistan, during the Russian War and under the Taliban regime.

What I saw during those visits was a beautiful country which had been devastated by war Whilst I was running these clinics for women and children, I heard tragic stories of their lives and saw first hand the scars of these 23 years of war.   I found doctors operating without anaesthetics on the injured from the frontline, with saws needles and thread from the bazaar.

Girls were denied an education and with women banned from working, many boys’ schools lacked teachers and many schools had been destroyed.

The ethos behind AC was that if we could change just one life for the better, then our work would be worthwhile.

6 years on, we have raised over 2 million pounds and spend 96% of our income on projects.   We are starting work on our 22nd school construction and have 10 more funded for 2008.  These schools will provide education for a total of 26,000 children. 

We also run a Twin School Project, partially funded by a grant from the European Union.  This links over 25,000 students in Afghanistan and the UK.  Eton College is the latest school to join the project, together with other schools from the state, private and special needs sectors.

In Health, we have refurbished and equipped hospitals and clinics in Kabul and Northern Afghanistan and funded expatriate Paediatric and Obstetric Consultants to give training in 3 provinces of Afghanistan. We have recently sent 16 vaccine refrigerators out to Northern Afghanistan to take part in Merlin’s project to vaccinate 72,000 people a year.

For more details and information on our latest projects, please see our Background, Health and Education pages.