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Maimana

A month with colleagues in the northern town and surroundings of Maimana was a fascinating glimpse into a very different part of Afghanistan.

Girls and women are much less shy here Installing new roofing in Jalaier Valley Listening in on the hand pump maintenance training Boy from the Uzbek ethnic group Elders at their experimental agricultural plot A Moghul boy at health & hygiene training Surveying the fields Playing for the camera Fox fur is used as an expensive but warm lining Pashtun children in the village of Kamusei Survey the digging of a new spring catchment Pashtun children of Kamusei A very different landscape from the south.... ... which allegedly turns green during the rains Grad of the Agricultural Training course Graduate with his tool kit Uzbek guard of the Ag'l School Waiting for the graduation ceremony to start An Uzbek boy of Bai Moghly Uzbek youth at a health & hygiene training course Young but proud graduates Unsuccessful health & hygiene trainee.... Uzbek girls of Bai Moghly Uzbek and Moghul elders of Bai Moghly Soon to be the new spring catchment of Kamusei Digging down into the new spring catchment