Why?

In today's Baltimore Sun, there is an article entitled "Last doctor standing at Afghan clinic" which is something important to read.  Please do as it is an education in itself.  A Dr. Asad Mojadidi, Afghan-born U.S. physician behind the creation of the clinic once deemed a model for Afghanistan is pictured in a shuttered clinic that once helped 5,000 patients a week.  If Dr. Asad Mojadidi were to receive payment of $10. per patient, in two weeks he would have made his annual budget, but the Afghan Government did not allow him to do so.

After going to Afghanistan and building this clinic, this Doctor who received payment of $400 per year, not minute, not hour, not week, not month .... but year, along with nurses who only received $150.00 per year cannot get sufficient money from the U.S. Government which previously supported it or the Afghanistan Government to keep this clinic open, which means that the poor in this country have no place else to turn. He moved heaven and earth to get it established, then created a fully serviceable facility with modern equipment at a cost of $750,000. versus the $1,300,000,000. in cost to build the new Johns Hopkins hospital in East Baltimore and now cannot raise sufficient funding  from the Afghan Ministry of Public Health which has an annual budget of more than $300 million a year.

He is seeking $100,000. a year to keep the facility running.  What is that in relationship to the billions that we spend on missiles and bombs?  How many thousands of a percent does it represent and what does this say to the people of Afghanistan?   We spend billions of dollars convincing the Afghanistan people that we are the good guys, but can't spend $100,000. to ensure that they can get good medical care.

If everyone of you would today after eating your turkey would send CARE, $1.00 check marked for "The Urgent and Primary Care Clinic in Kabul" just think of what good that donation would do.  The people of Afghanistan would have primary care and the world would be just a better place in which to live.