Dirt Roads
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| Originally published | May 26, 2016 |
| Authors | Tony Martin |
| Genres | Fiction |
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| ID | 2986826 |
About Dirt Roads
“Dirt Roads” is a collection born of a combination of age, life changes, and living in the solitude and silence of the mountains and high desert. The latter encourages and enables listening, self-awareness, and critical thinking; allowing your mind to soar and search like the Eagle. . . .
Morocco earthquake: Young volunteers answer desperate calls for help
... Peaks stretch far into the distance and the volunteer delivery vans lumber and splutter over orange Dirt Roads, passing vertiginous drops...
Australian woman's record-breaking run from continent's 'tip to toe'
... But her body learned to cope as she wound her way along Australia s famous coastline, through rainforests, and down both Dirt Roads and highways...
Sri Lanka crisis: Parents forced to pick which child can go to school
... " A shattered educationAs the sun rises, children who are going to class hurry along Dirt Roads in white cotton uniforms, jumping on the back of motorcycles or piling into tuk-tuks...
Somalia drought: One boy's fight to save his family from starvation
... " Today he acknowledges a slight drop in admission numbers but explains that was probably due to a few days of rain which had disrupted some Dirt Roads and prompted some families to focus on trying to plant crops rather than bringing sick children to hospital...
Hurricane Ian: Bigotry couldn't beat this family - then came the storm
... " It was mostly Dirt Roads and farms, " Phoebe said...
Afghanistan earthquake: Survivors count horrific cost
... The villages are at least a three-hour drive away from the nearest big city, along largely bumpy Dirt Roads...
Afghanistan earthquake: No food, no shelter and fears of cholera
... It s a three-hour drive to the nearest big city, on mostly Dirt Roads - the remote location making it all the more difficult to transport the injured...
'You can't imagine the conditions' - Mariupol refugees share trauma of civilian camps
... Oleksandr and Olena s driver managed to get them from their filtration camp to the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk - through " fields, Dirt Roads, narrow pathways behind all the checkpoints" Olena says, because they didn t have the proper documents to pass a Russian inspection...
Afghanistan earthquake: No food, no shelter and fears of cholera
Survivors of Afghanistan's deadliest earthquake in two decades say they have nothing to eat, no shelter, and fear a possible cholera outbreak. The Bbc 's Secunder Kermani reports from Paktika province, The hardest hit by The disaster.
Searching through The debris, in what is left of His Family home, Agha Jan's eyes well up with tears.
" These were my sons' shoes, " he says, brushing The dust off them. His three young children and Two Wives were killed in The earthquake as they slept.
As The tremors struck in The Early Hours of Wednesday, Agha Jan rushed towards The Room where His Family was staying.
" But everything was under The rubble, " he tells The Bbc . " Even my shovel. There was nothing I could do. I called out To My cousins to help but when we pulled My Family out, they were already all dead. "
The area around Agha Jan's village in Barmal district, Paktika province, is one of The worst affected by The earthquake, in which around 1,000 people are believed to have been killed and 3,000 more injured.
It's a three-hour drive to The nearest Big City , on mostly Dirt Roads - The remote location Making It all The more difficult to transport The injured. Some had to be flown to hospital in The Taliban 's military helicopters.
Almost every house in The Village , generally constructed from mud and stone, appears to be badly damaged. Almost every family seems to be grieving a lost relative.
Habib Gul was across The Border in The Pakistani city of Karachi, working as a labourer, when he heard The News . He rushed back to his village in Barmal to discover 20 of his relatives had been killed - 18 of them in a single house.
" Whose names can I give you? So many of my relatives were martyred, Three Sisters , my niece, My Daughter , young children. "
Every villager we meet wants to show us The destruction to their home. Partly because they want The World to see The devastation, but also, more practically, because they are hoping their names can be added to aid distribution lists.
" If The World looks on us Like Brothers and helps us, we will Stay Here on Our Land , " Habib Gul tells The Bbc . " If they don't, we will leave this place where we have spent so long with tears in our eyes. "
Overhead, military helicopters whir through The sky. They're no longer transporting injured victims but delivering supplies. Taliban officials tell us The Rescue operation has been completed and is now over.
The Most pressing need is shelter for The Hundreds of families left homeless.
Agha Jan And One of his surviving sons are pitching a large sheet of tarpaulin between wooden sticks on a piece of empty ground. Other families are in tents, flanked by The remnants of homes they worked so hard to construct.
Khalid Jan is now responsible for his five young grandchildren who mill around by his feet. Their father, his son, was killed in The earthquake, along with two other of Khalid Jan's children.
" I Am all they have left, " he tells The Bbc , perched on a metal charpoy - a traditional Bed - Underneath a tent. " But The House and everything here has been destroyed and I will never be able to rebuild it. "
Afghan and international aid agencies are assessing The damage and delivering supplies, but this is a major and developing crisis, one which comes on top of The country's already dire humanitarian situation.
The United Nations , which is also helping support victims, is warning of The Risk of a possible cholera outbreak.
At Habib Gul's village, men have gathered to offer prayers commemorating The Dead . Almost 50 people have been killed out of a population of around 250. Attention will now turn to The Survivors , and how fast aid can reach them.
Source of news: bbc.com