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PICTURES NOVEMBER 2002


Representatives of MAFSummit traveled to Afghanistan during November 2002.  They visited hospitals schools, aid organizations and meeting with government officials.

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Cindy Taylor, a neonatal nurse from Memphis, Tennessee, foreground, and other representatives of the Memphis-Afghan Friendship Summit, pray for a mother and her newborn at the Malali women's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 2002. 

Taylor and other representatives of the MAFSummit visited Kabul to help Afghan medical and educational institutions rebuild after 23 years of conflict.

      

A student waves an Afghanistan flag for visitors at Mariam high school in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November, 2002.  The girls' school which teaches 8,100 students in three shifts reopened this year after the demise of the Taliban regime which banned the education of females.


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Zack Taylor, a gastroenterologist from Memphis, Tennessee, visits patients at the Jamhorit Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 2002.

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Zack Taylor of Memphis, Tennessee, far left, Cindy Taylor, a neonatal nurse from Memphis, Dr. Fahima Khalil, head of Malali Hospital, and Dr. Gulaga Ehsas Safi, Deputy Minister of Public Health, visit a newborn ward at Malili Women's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 2002.

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A patient at Malali Women's hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 2002.

    

Patients at Jamhorit Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 2002.

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Patients share beds at the Malali Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.  After decades of conflict and instability, Afghan hospitals are under-equipped and overcrowded.

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Cindy Taylor, a representative of the Memphis-Afghan Friendship Summit, greets students at Mariam high school in Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 2002. The girls' school where 8,100 students attend in three shifts reopened this year after the demise of the Taliban regime which banned the education of females.

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Students pause for questions during an exam at Mariam high school in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November, 2002.  The girls' school which teaches 8,100 students in three shifts reopened this year after the demise of the Taliban regime which banned the education of females.


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Students enter Mariam high school in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November, 2002. The girls' school which teaches 8,100 students in three shifts reopened this year after the demise of the Taliban regime which banned the education of females.


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 Yunis Qanuni, Afghanistan's Minister of Education, speaks with Mark Morris of the Memphis-Afghan Friendship Summit, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November, 2002.


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FexEx opens an office in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Photo taken in November, 2002.


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