Community radio can influence positive change in communities.  After intensive training,  health workers in Afghanistan are empowered to tackle issues such as poverty, gender inequality,  nutrition and health head on, by using the power of the media to promote awareness, advocate for change and influence a new kind of thinking.

It seems like the end of the world – miles from anything that I would call vaguely  civilised.  Yet here in a remote corner of Afghanistan, a dedicated team of workers show real love in action, serving a very hurting people with overwhelming needs, where life expectancy is a little over 45.  We met a young man called Abdulaziz, probably 16 years, who had walked for four hours with his mum over difficult terrain – she needed medical attention.  Holding back tears he asked us: “Please come and open a clinic in our area, and come and teach us, we want to be educated.”

It is so easy to become overwhelmed by the need, and yet, as the Chinese proverb goes: “Drip by drip a river is formed.”  And so my friend said to Abdulaziz, well please won’t you pray with us to Almighty God, that He will help us to bring a clinic to you… and we’ll do our best to come.  And so we did – we prayed then and there under the scorching Afghan sun – an unlikely group if ever there was one, but joined by a common desire to see this valley transformed.