HUMANITARIAN MISSION RECON

Today we reconned a village for our next humanitarian mission. As usual, the kids were great.

There was a pretty strong dust storm this afternoon. Either that's to blame for the fuzzy pictures or my camera is on its last leg. Probably the latter. It's been through a lot.

A smart soldier brought along some candy. The kids loved scrambling for it.

This village looks like a good spot. We are going to make this mission very "hands on." Instead of handing out a bag of random goods, we are going to have a personal fitting for each child. This will take a lot more time, but it will be much more beneficial for the recipients.

When we started this campaign, I asked for the clothes to be sorted by gender and age. Lots of generous people devoted a great deal of time doing just that. They also made sure that each box was labeled, identifying its contents. This will enable us to simply unload the boxes, set up stations for each clothing item and have people visit each station to receive their clothes.

Without your help, we could not be certain that we will be meeting each child's individual needs. Because of your hard work, we can now put the right sized shirt, shoes and pants on each child.

Although it says otherwise on my orders, this is why I came to Afghanistan.