Surviving in Afghanistan
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Jennifer McCarthy, who’s studying what it takes to survive in drought- and poverty-stricken northern Afghanistan. As part of her thesis, the Canadian academic is living on a dollar-a-day in the country’s Faryab Province and writing a blog about it.
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