PARSA Newsletter
Scouts from Tai Maskan Orphanage
Troop 001 learn to swim at Qargha
Lake just outside of Kabul.
Marnie Gustavson began publishing the PARSA Newsletter in March, 2009.
October
1, 2009
See Afghan Tourism in Action - in Bamyan with PARSA
Come find out why everyone keeps talking about Bamyan!
October
21, 2009
A Sustainable Future for Afghanistan: Reviving and Re-branding Tourism
Read about Afghanistan's new National Park at Band-i-Amir and PARSA's Bamyan Family Park...
December
1, 2009
Afghan Scouts learn to ‘be prepared!’
KABUL – In the United States, being a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout is just one of many diversions offered to kids.
Saliha Farid, a PARSA social worker, explained that options for young Afghan men are limited once they leave the orphanage. "After finishing their education, boys have the option ...
July
1, 2010
Counterinsurgency Down for the Count in Afghanistan…
President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy isn’t working. So said a parade of Afghanistan watchers during the flap over war commander General Stanley McChrystal’s firing. But what does that phrase, so often in the media these days, really mean? And if the strategy really isn’t working, just how can you tell?
