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A mother wearing the turquoise chador walks towards the bus station with a baby on her harms. She is a nine months old girl with dark blond hair, green luminous eyes and an abnormal and painful abscess on her face. Her name is Shabana from Kair Khana and the woman behind the burka is her mother. I ask her what is wrong with the face of her child but she only comes out with "Doctor.... Doctor"
KHOST, SHORT VISITS SHABANA'S CASE
SPECIAL OLYMPICS AFGHANISTAN On 23-25 August 2005, Special Olympics Afghanistan held its first national Games at Olympic Stadium in Kabul. More than 300 athletes, including 80 female athletes, experienced a taste of happiness and achievement for the first time in their lives. They competed in athletics, bocce and football (soccer). Because of cultural restrictions, males and females competed at separate venues.
WOMEN EDU UNFPA Only about nine percent of the women in Afghanistan have access to a trained birth attendant. The consequences are devastating: one woman dies every 27 minutes from complications related to pregnancy and child-birth, giving the country the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world. Conditions are even worse in the most remote regions of Afghanistan: the northern province of Badakhshan suffers from the worst mortality rate ever recorded: 6,500 deaths per 100,000 live births.
SPECIAL OLYMPICS AFGHAN WOMEN EDU UNFPA
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