Afghanistan

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A young girl wears jeans and fancy shoes in a street in Kabul. Jeans were practically banned by the Taliban regime because of their Western origin while girls were not allowed outside the home. Now, just over a decade later, a girl is publicly wearing jeans in the street with sparkles on her shoes.

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An Afghan woman stands breastfeeding her child while waiting in line to receive aid from the Missionaries of Charity – better known as the Mother Teresa nuns.

The nuns who have lived in Kabul since 2004 help almost 300 Afghan families they have personally visited and found to be in dire need. Afghanistan has no welfare system to support the poor, nor does it have any public acceptance of Christianity in the form of physical churches or similar. The nuns supply the families on a weekly basis with basic food, clothing, and other material needs through funding they receive from the Motherhouse in India.

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A man pushes a cart in the rain past one of Kabul’s many wedding halls.

The wedding halls are the largest buildings in the city, typically gaudy in design and lit up with colourful neon lights at night. They are a stark contrast to the general poverty of the surrounds and the grey of the dust-coated city.

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