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An Afghan woman holds a USAID supplied radio. USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives delivered radios to the people of Afghanistan so they could hear special bulletins concerning humanitarian information.
An Afghan man holds one of the USAID-supplied radios delivered to the people of Afghanistan to allow them to hear special broadcast bulletins.
An Afghan man listens to the radio. USAID delivered radios to the people of Afghanistan so they could hear special bulletins concerning humanitarian information.
Through the International Organization of Migration, USAID has distributed more than 25,000 radios to female teachers, university students, professionals, women's organizations, hospitals and patients, shura members, local journalists, students, IDPs, and others.
Through the International Organization of Migration, USAID has distributed more than 25,000 radios to the Afghan people.
Afghanistan, March 2002 - Afghan girls sing at a celebration of International Women's Day, March 8. The ceremony took place at the Ministry of Women's Affairs, which USAID helped rehabilitate.
U.S. Ambassador Robert P. Finn signs an agreement for an $80,000 grant provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development to Da Afghanistan Bank (the Central Bank) as the Bank's Governor, Dr. Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady, looks on from the right. Also pictured are Craig Buck, USAID Mission Director (second from the left) and Ahmed Idrees Rahmani, a program officer for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (left). The USAID grant will facilitate the transfer of money between Afghanistan and the international financial community and establish a communications link between the Bank's headquarters in Kabul and its offices in Herat, Kandahar, Nangarhar and Mazar-e-Sharif.
USAID Mission Director Craig Buck (left) talks with Narges (seated at the computer), one of 16 Afghan journalists trained under a program funded by USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives. The journalists learned the fundamentals of a free press, journalistic ethics and how to digitally edit material for broadcast during a three-week program provided by the non-governmental organization Internews.
Afghan radio journalists interview U.S. Chargé D'Affaires David Sedney in Kabul as part of a training program designed to hone their reporting and editing skills. The three-week program, for 16 radio reporters from around the country, was the first journalism training course by the non-governmental organization, Internews, under a grant by USAID.
Internews Project Director Dominic Medley (left) explains to USAID Mission Director Craig Buck (right) the function of the computer in digitally-editing audio tapes. Seated at the terminal is Treyalai Salei, of Radio Kandahar, one of 16 Afghan radio journalists who were given three weeks of training on how to improve their writing, reporting and editing skills. The training was provided by Internews and funded by USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives.
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Photo: An Afghan woman holds a USAID supplied radio. USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives delivered radios to the people of Afghanistan so they could hear special bulletins concerning humanitarian information.
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Afghanistan - An Afghan woman holds a USAID supplied radio. USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives delivered radios to the people of Afghanistan so they could hear special bulletins concerning humanitarian information.

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