Afghanistan’s disability crisis
December 25th, 2008
Video from the New York Times:
There are roughly 1 million people with disabilities in Afghanistan, most of them victims of war. Many cannot find work and must beg on the streets to support themselves. State hospitals cannot afford to treat them, so they rely instead on people like Alberto Cairo (above), an Italian physiotherapist who has been running a Red Cross center in Afghanistan for almost two decades. Cairo employs people with disabilities to make prosthetic devices.
Says Cairo: “I am not a very deep thinker. I think there are people who are happy if I stay, so I want to stay.”
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