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Compilation of sequences showing 1st Battalion the Green Howards in and around Kabul, Afghanistan, focusing on CIMIC projects.
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START 10:00:55
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10:01:23 Mazar-e Sharif: children play in empty hulk of Soviet-era armoured personnel carrier.
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19:02:07 Army members of the CIMIC team arrive at Amena-e-Fedawi Girl's School in Kabul and greet staff. Members of the team meet the head teacher in her office.
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10:04:53 Captain Wayne Pledger (and interpreter) visits a classroom and sits in on a lesson, he also writes his name on a blackboard for the children.
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10:08:29 Class being held in a crowded, dark hallway.
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10:10:04 Captain Pledger, accompanied by the head cook, looks at the block at the rear of the building where the new classrooms are to be built.
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10:11:37 Interview with Captain Wayne Pledger.
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10:14:40 Interview with Mrs Abeda Podal (?), head teacher.
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10:15:33 Panoramic views of Kabul from high elevation overlooking the city. Abandoned buildings stand nearby.
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END 10:16:43
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Captain Wayne Pledger is interviewed about a project at a Kabul school in 2004. The head teacher also speaks about the project through an interpreter.
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Well you see many different things here in Kabul and some children as you have seen today will be sat in corridors or under stairs in corridors. Because of the cramped conditions most schools have got ten times the number of pupils than they were ever built for and on the other side you will see some classrooms with basic instructional facilities - a chalkboard and chalk, no books and pens, and that is the limit of what you will see here in Kabul. The next stage for the Afghan government is the next step in providing proper computer systems proper books so the children – who are the future of Afghanistan – can hopefully improve Afghanistan in the future.
It was basically Taliban headquarters and they made the ablutions for them, they made ablution places in the classroom. Before the Taliban, it was classroom, they made it ablution places. The British soldiers came, they took some pictures and they told us that they would change it to classroom back for us and they already started to change this.