Farewell

Today we had a farewell party for one of our local national engineers. He found a higher paying job in Kabul and we are very proud of him. He's been with the PRT for a year and a half and has done a great job. Unfortunately, the PRT does not pay enough money compared to some of the NGOs, so our engineers often leave for a better pay check. We had a very nice luncheon and I wore a kuchi dress--a typical pattern for the nomadic people in Afghanistan.

Good Morning Afghanistan

A couple weeks ago the news team from Good Morning America made a visit to the PRT. I got to spend a lot of time with Chris Cuomo and the crew as we took them to several of our project sites. I did some interviews, but it looks like they never made it on the air. So, here are the links to some pictures:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/war-afghanistan-scenes-battle/Story?id=8768136&page=2

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Afghanistan/rebuilding-afghanistan-war/Story?id=8778096&page=2

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Afghanistan/rebuilding-afghanistan-war/story?id=8778096

The last link has a video and I'm in there a a couple times, although a little bit out of context. I think the backhoe on one of my projects got more air time than I did.