We Aren’t Ending 20 Years Of War

We promised water, education, and hope. These weren’t promises we were capable of keeping. And I’m complicit.

Photo courtesy of Warrick Gilbert.

I moved to Afghanistan in January of 2007, the first chance I got, fresh out of grad school. I studied public health and learned that every 28 minutes a woman in Afghanistan dies in childbirth. And doing something about that…