Dispatches with Hollie McKay

Dispatches with Hollie McKay

Afghanistan Dispatches: Portraits of Resilience

While slapped with uncertainty as the country crumbles to Taliban control, the streets of Kabul paint of picture of life goes on

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Hollie McKay
Aug 09, 2021
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“And This Too Shall Pass”

- 2 Corinthians 4: 17-18


Afghanistan is a country that has long been burned and entombed alive by outside occupation, by conflict, by poverty, by history. 

But it is also a country defined by survival, by fortitude, by gentle faces and a zest for something better. It is the type of place where strangers offer you their last piece…

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