In Focus: Afghanistan Disabled

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About one in ten Afghans is disabled, a legacy of decades of war and poor health care. In 1999, Dost Mohammed Khairy contracted Guillane Barre Syndrome - an infection that attacks the nervous system. He is one of 9,000 Afghans given refuge in the US since Sept 11. He established an organization here to help the disabled in Afghanistan. Recently he made his first trip back.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "A Journey Home: Afghanistan through the Eyes of a Returning Refugee" (http://bit.ly/t8LjCX).

"Afghanistan Disabled"
Reported by Don Duncan and Jessica Wanke
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Pulitzer Center
• Afghanistan
• Disabled Afghans
• Afghanistan News
• Health Care
• Afghan Refugees
• Disability Discrimination
• Human Rights
• Afghanistan Health Care Reform
• Dost Mohammed Khairy

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@wheelslarbac click 4:22 can't get up the ramp on his own, he is far more disabled then all the other disabled in Afghanistan. He can't even wheel his own wheelchair, he needs a personal care attendent. The others can push their wheelchairs or even walk on crutches. That is why the U.S. A. took him because he would have died where as these others can make it and do some begging. The most disabled one is trying to help the others when it should be them helping him.

[wheelslarbac]

@wheelslarbac click 4:22 can't up the ramp on his own, he is far more disabled then all the other disabled in Afghanistan. He can't even wheel his own wheelchair, he needs a personal care attendent. The others can push their wheelchairs or even walk on crutches. That is why the U.S. A. took him because he would have died where as these others can make it and do some begging. The most disabled one is trying to help the others when it should be them helping him.

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Click 0:36 to see Dost Mohamed a disabled

Afghanistan Refugee

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mashallah