“We know everyone works and does something for money. We work from 8AM to 12PM or 4PM to receive money and live our life. But with all that we do not get inner peace. We… 

Samiullah, 35, has a small yellow rickshaw he uses to transport passengers around the crowded city of Jalalabad for a living. He, who has also an associate degree in medical science, is amongst hundreds of… 

It is common for Afghan girls to be deprived of their basic right to education. Some Afghans believe girls are born to be housewives, give birth, raise children and stay at home. At the same… 

Like any other child, my birth was normal, but the only thing making me different was my half-paralyzed lower part of the body. Therefore, I was not treated like a normal child. I was always… 

Sometimes I wonder how someone can become so cruel to take someone else’s comfort away. There should be something behind cruelty. Everything happens for a reason but human cruelty must have multiple reasons. I still… 

I thought it was like my toys and dolls playing and making fun. When I was playing with my toys and dolls, I would marry them to each other, and sometimes even throw them away.… 

Deda was born to a traditional Afghan family. She was allowed to finish her secondary education but when it was time for higher education, cultural inhibitions got in the way and she had to leave… 

“When my brother was acting violently towards the family”, recalled Nawaz, “my nieces and nephews started to copy him. He was expressing all his pain in a violent way towards the family, which was not… 

Shabnam, not her real name, lived 20 kilometers to the north of Kabul city in a small rural village. She kept coming for treatment to Shamal Orthopedic Hospital in Kotal-e Khair Khana, Kabul. Shabnam was…