Blogging For A Freer Afghanistan

I was visiting Global Voices today, and ran across this posting on bloggers in Afghanistan. It amazes me that we continue waging a war there, and we virtually know nothing about the country, it's people or what's happening with our U.S. soldiers.

While we have limited knowledge of what's really going on in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan continues on in silence - it's the "forgotten war".

Nasim Fekrat from Kubul, and the other bloggers in Afghanistan want the world to read their blogs . . . just a traveler

Afghan bloggers face severe conditions. We always have power outages. That is normal here. Within 24 hours we have 5 hours electricity, but also periodical outages. We need to write our posts on paper and wait until the power comes back.

Whenever we type and save something to a memory stick, we must walk a distance to access the internet. Probably this will take one hour or less, but we have to deal with this every single day.

Bloggers in Afghanistan are really poor, and I am sure international organizations could help us. I am asking anybody reading these lines, please help us to promote blogs and digital media in Afghanistan. I believe, if we don’t develop modern media, we will not be able to provide information out of Afghanistan. We need international help.

Read more about bloggers in Afghanistan at Global Voices