Greetings!
Nabi's idea is catching on. Basir has now distributed 1,100 Afghanis ($15) to 200 people working on the streets of Kabul. That means 1,000 people have food for a week! Donations continue to come in and Basir's back on the streets.
Also working on the streets are men and women street sweepers. They sweep the streets and sidewalks with brooms four hours a day six days a week and are paid $133 per month (around $1.28/hr). Distributions made to the last 100 were 50% to women and 50% to men or boys. We'll attempt to split 50/50 from now on. There are of course fewer women on the streets than men.
I along with many of you are troubled by how many large corporations chose and were allowed to borrow tens of millions of dollars from the billions approved by congress. Once again the trickle down theory was thwarted by those at the top. Thanks to Basir, we are directly providing aid to those on the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder. Is there a rung lower than the streets?
I realize that this is "giving men and woman fish" rather than teaching them how to fish. These men, women and their families, at this point in their lives, need fish, and from 7,379 miles away, we're able to provide it.
For seventeen years we've spent most of what we receive educating Afghan children so they don't end up on the streets. We've helped educate thousands. Join Nabi and others in putting food on the table of thousands more.
Budd
