Once in Afghanistan Peace Corps Vaccinators

Jill Vickers, and Jody Bergedick Afghanistan PCVs
Once in Afghanistan

This new, feature-length documentary is the story of the female volunteers working on smallpox vaccination teams in Afghanistan in 1969 and 70. One of the women, Jill Vickers, co-produced and edited this depiction of how the vaccinators found their way and what impressions have endured. She and Jody Bergedick released "Once in Afghanistan" through the generosity of Group 15 members and their friends. It's available for public showings with Q&A led by members of the group and is for sale on DVD. All profits go to NGOs working in Afghanistan.

SYNOPSIS: "We walked in on weddings, on funerals - whatever was going on - and vaccinated everyone." Group 15 volunteers were members of Afghan male smallpox vaccinator teams in 1969 and 1970. The women's stories with their photographs bring that time of relative peace and
prosperity to life. Travel with them to remote areas meeting incredible hospitality as well as open resistance to the vaccination program. The movie takes you behind the high compound walls to a place where people of completely different backgrounds could recognize one another in
spite of their differences. In a world in which messages of hate travel faster than ever before, this is a message of understanding.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Peace
• Afghanistan
• PCV
• Corps

[matin605]

Does anyone have pics of Helmand valley from the 60s and 70s? Would you please post them on facebook. Thanks.

[sweetnspicytruca]

Amazing!