Is America Helping Afghanistan? | One American Woman’s Efforts to Help the Afghan People
A former Newsweek foreign correspondent, Michael Alan Lerner is now a screenwriter and freelance journalist who lives in New York City. He accompanied Suraya Sadeed on her trip into northern Afghanistan in 2002, and described the experience in the following article.
Naturalized American citizen Suraya Sadeed has been risking her life to smuggle food and American dollars into Afghanistan since 1993. Founder of the U.S. nonprofit organization Help the Afghan Children International, Sadeed has single-handedly smuggled in more than three hundred thousand dollars and two...
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