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Article: Rebuilding Afghanistan: at year's end, hope that a country that survived 20 years of foreign domination, a brutal civil war and the rule of the Taliban may yet find its bearings. (Cover Story).
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- January 10, 2003
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The breeze that chilled Wahida Sadat's home would normally have been welcome as Kabul's warm weather extended into October. But on this particular day, Sadat was nursing a child with the flu, and the chilly air was just another distraction as she sat down on a cool floor to make a quilt. Her family's sole income comes from a quilt-making project administered by a local Afghan relief organization.
Motioning toward the open windows (glass is too expensive and hard to come by in Kabul), Sadat said she could only imagine what it would be like during the coming winter.
Sadat, her husband and five children, ages 1 to 15, are among the 1.5 million refugees who ...