1. Nebraska Agribusiness Development
Team #3

2. FOB Gardez demonstration barnyard
animals at dinner time

3. The first four chicks hatched by a
broody hen at our barnyard

4. The team veterinarian removing straw
from a chick’s eye

5. Preparing the fast compost barrel for a
training with locals

6. Turning the demonstration barnyard
fast compost barrel

7. Saying goodbye to my favorite
barnyard sheep, Ollie

8. GIRoA forestry specialist, Kwaja Gul,
speaking with a local farmer in Gardez

9. Discussing tree orchard diseases with
Gardez farmers

10. Speaking with a tree nursery owner in
Gardez District

11. Ahmad Abad nursery owner working
on his jerib-sized (.48 acres) plot

12. Quality assessment on reforestation
project in Jaji District

13. Discussion with tree nursery owners in
Sayed Karam District

14. Tree nursery quality assessment in
Balladah Village, Gardez District

15. Discussing tree nursery issues with
nursery owner in Chamkani District

16. Performing a market assessment in Jaji
District

17. Inspecting the pine nut harvest in Jaji
District

18. Performing a meat market assessment
in Jaji District

19. Discussing greenhouse maintenance
with workers at Chamkani Girls School

20. Greenhouse assessment in Jaji District

21. Quality assessment of greenhouse at
Women’s Development Center

22. Women’s Development Center drip
irrigation system

23. Cool storage quality assessment in
Mirzaka District

24. Chamkani cool storage facilities built
to improve food security

25. Sayed Karam cool storage facility built
to improve food security

26. Discussing agriculture projects with
the Lija Mangal District Governor

27. Agriculture meeting with Ahmad Abad
District Governor and village elders

28. Meeting with village elders in Sayed
Karam District

29. Discussion with Director of Women’s
Affairs (DoWA) about poultry classes

30. Discussion with Mariam Pakteen,
Provincial Councilwoman for Paktya

31. Planning meeting for the first female
radio station in Paktya

32. Mahera Ahmadzai, Paktya women’s
shura leader and class facilitator

33. Distributing chickens and supplies to a
widow with 8 daughters

34. Operation Fowl Freedom chicken
distribution to Malali

35. Dande Patan Harvesting Training for 30
local male farmers

36. Poultry Training 90 day quality
assessment in Mirzaka District

37. Mirzaka Harvest Bag Sewing Training
for 20 females

38. Zormat Harvest Bag Sewing Training
for 20 local females

39. Zormat female who is expressing her
appreciation for the sewing training

40. Sayed Karam Women’s Small
Agribusiness Training

41. Roqia Mozafari proudly displaying a
harvesting bag made at her training

42. Food safety training for 20 women in
Sayed Karam District

43. Participant of the Mirzaka Poultry
Training receiving 10 chickens

44. Distributing agriculture tools and
school supplies to a co-ed school

45. Speaking to media which informs the
public about our projects

46. School supplies distribution to Haleem
Qala Middle School in Gardez

47. Mirzaka Poultry Training graduation
ceremony

48. The farewell ceremony with Paktya
DAIL staff and Ag Team

49. Final female shura with Director of
Women’s Affairs and Paktya locals

50. Saying goodbye to Roqia, an illiterate
Hazara woman from Kabul - and my friend