201st Corps helps Shani Zahvra with humanitarian supplies

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Written by Afghan National Army Sgt. Ramin Sahmadi Friday, 18 December 2009 23:06

POL-E CHARKHI, Afghanistan – Key leaders of Shani Zahvra village help unload bundles from the 201st Corps truck and hand food and winter supplies to two children from the area. Almost 1,200 people from 250 families were given flour, rice, beans, sugar, tea, matches, stationary, blankets, scarves and hand-crank radios from the 201st Corps of the Afghan National Army, Dec. 16. (Photo by U.S. Army Lt. Col. John Lim, 201st Corps information officer) POL-E CHARKHI, Afghanistan – The 201st Corps conducted a humanitarian assistance mission in Shani Zahvra village, just a few miles east of Kabul to provide issuing flour, rice, beans, sugar, tea, matches, stationary, blankets, scarves and hand-crank radios to 250 families – almost 1,200 people, Dec. 16.

Afghan Army Brig. Gen. Muheburahman, 201st Corps mullah, also met with the village elder and other key leaders.  They discussed how the government and the Afghan National Army could help the people of the village.   

Two representatives of the village, Said Jan and Haji Meya Qul, promised the ANA that they would encourage 50 teenagers of the village to join them.  

 

POL-E CHARKHI, Afghanistan – A father smiles as he takes a bundle of food and winter supplies home to his family in Shani Zahvra, Dec. 16. Approximately 1,200 people from 250 families were given flour, rice, beans, sugar, tea, matches, stationary, blankets, scarves and hand-crank radios from the 201st Corps of the Afghan National Army. (Photo by U.S. Army Lt. Col. John Lim, 201st Corps information officer) POL-E CHARKHI, Afghanistan – Afghan National Army Soldiers from 201st Corps hand a bundle of food and winter supplies to a boy from Shani Zahvra village, Dec. 16. Almost 1,200 people from 250 families were given flour, rice, beans, sugar, tea, matches, stationary, blankets, scarves and hand-crank radios as part of a humanitarian mission on behalf of the Afghan government. (Photo by U.S. Army Lt. Col. John Lim, 201st Corps information officer)

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