Wednesday

Hi All on Wednesday we went out to do our first shooting out in the field. We first went to Bargam and saw the prevention of blindness program there. They were giving eye check ups and giving medicine and glasses out to people who needed them, and also referring people who had eye problems to the closest hospitals when needed. I guess one very common problem here with people's eyes is that they have this thing in thier eye that can be operated on in like two minutes and it is taken care of, but if it is not taken care of it causes you to go blind!

After that we went to a deaf class and filmed them telling us jokes. It really was a lot of fun listening to them tell us jokes about Mullah Nassrudin he is like the but of all jokes in Afghanistan.(Fictional character of course) . The SERVE employees then brought us lunch which was very kind of them, they even had bowls of custard like stuff with the words SERVE EMAD(emad stands for Enabling and mobilizing afghan disabled it is the project they work in) and WELCOME written on it. We then went and saw two of the physical therapy clients, and then came back to Kabul. While driving back we saw the tent where the Afghan Constitution was made. Then we came back to the house and met up with the rest of the group that had just arrived.
Benjie