Jake Phelan
Jake Phelan has been in Afghanistan since July 2007. He works for an international NGO focusing on rural economic development, principally through agricultural, arboriculture and animal health care programmes - and increasingly emergency cash for work projects. A social anthropologist, he is responsible for monitoring and evaluation.
Aid workers have lost their sanctity in Afghanistan
Author: Jake Phelan
I didn't know Gayle Williams. But the fact that she was out walking in a city where the majority of foreigners live cut off even from their own neighbourhood instantly makes me like her.
News of her death sunk in slowly. A terse email reporting the incident shortly after it happened in the morning was submerged by a dozen others. My first response was to check the media to see if the story had been picked up yet, and so whether I needed to reassure folks back home that I was still here. It hadn't, and I put it all to the back of my mind and carried on with work.
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Author: Jake Phelan
I didn't know Gayle Williams. But the fact that she was out walking in a city where the majority of foreigners live cut off even from their own neighbourhood instantly makes me like her.
News of her death sunk in slowly. A terse email reporting the incident shortly after it happened in the morning was submerged by a dozen others. My first response was to check the media to see if the story had been picked up yet, and so whether I needed to reassure folks back home that I was still here. It hadn't, and I put it all to the back of my mind and carried on with work.
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