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In this final segment of Radio Prague’s series on Czechs in Afghanistan,
Christian Falvey returns to the NATO base at Kabul International Airport to
visit the most celebrated Czech army unit of past and present, the
Radiological, Chemical and Biological Protection Brigade.
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Letter from PragueA letter from Kabul
I wanted to go back to Afghanistan the minute I left it. No less because
within twelve hours of doing so, I found I’d swapped all the gritty
wonders of that country for the faux mystique of Dubai. Dubai has as much
mystique as Disneyland, but a cloud of volcanic ash kept me captive there
for three days. At least I had a chance to fill myself up with fish, before
going back to Prague, and to consider everything I had seen and heard over
the two weeks past.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan, Pt. XI: On the concrete island that the army calls home
For the last month we have focused on the humanitarian side of Czech
activities in war-torn Afghanistan; today we move closer to the war itself.
There are more than 500 Czech soldiers in the country as part of the
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, and many of them are
serving at Kabul International Airport, where Radio Prague’s reporter
Christian Falvey went to find out more about their mission and their
day-to-day lives.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan, Pt. X: What the future holds
As Radio Prague’s series on Czechs in Afghanistan winds down, Christian
Falvey leaves the Czech humanitarian mission in northern Afghanistan and
reports on the feelings about the future among the people working there,
Czech and Afghan alike.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan IX: Danger is a relative concept
The essentials of humanitarian work can be very much the same wherever it
is done in the world, but there is an obvious added difficulty in
Afghanistan: an ongoing, 30-year state of armed conflict. In this
instalment of Czechs in Afghanistan, Christian Falvey looks at the security
conditions that Czech aid workers live in, as they carry out the work of
redevelopment in a complicated and dangerous situation.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan VIII: Spinning wool into gold
Traditional handicraft is alive and well in Afghanistan, particularly the
celebrated trade of carpet weaving. But the established methods in place
since time immemorial are also holding people back in the struggle for
sustainable livelihoods. In the next edition of Radio Prague’s series on
Czechs in Afghanistan, Christian Falvey sees how Czech aid workers are
supporting a unique and renowned local industry with a simple innovation.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan VII: The river gives and the river takes away
Emergency aid is the first step in humanitarian work in Afghanistan, but
much of the north of the country is beyond that now – what the people
there currently need is sustainable livelihood. In the seventh part of
Radio Prague’s series on Czechs in Afghanistan, Czech humanitarian
workers bring their business sense to the fields to help bring tangible,
maintainable profits, sometimes in the midst of insurmountable disasters.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan VI: Teach a man to farm and you feed him for a lifetime
Today Radio Prague returns to Afghanistan, and the Czechs at work
rebuilding a country where an estimated 72% of the population is
illiterate. In this edition of Czechs in Afghanistan, Christian Falvey
reports from the north of the war-stricken country on the educational
programmes of the Czech charity foundation People in Need.
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SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan Pt. V: In water there is death, life and livelihood
About 28% of Afghanistan’s population have access to clean drinking water
– that means 20 million people in the country do not. While we usually
think of war and poverty as the main issues facing Afghanistan, water is
often at the root of those problems, bringing disease and conflicts over
sources. In the next of our series on Czechs in Afghanistan, Christian
Falvey visits the Northern Afghan village of Shoran Pain with the People
in
Need Foundation to see how water projects are drastically improving lives. More
SpecialCzechs in Afghanistan Pt. IV: When in Afghanistan, do as the Afghans do
Today we continue our series on Czechs in Afghanistan. That series focuses
primarily on the Czech humanitarian aid organisation People in Need, and
for good reason: there are few organisations of its kind that work as
closely with beneficiaries in far-removed parts of the world and live like
they do. This week, Christian Falvey looks at the day-to-day lives of Czech
aid workers in both the urban centres and remote mountain communities of
Afghanistan.
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