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ROAD CONSTRUCTION undertaken by Alghan women in Kabul, the capital of
Afghanistan, is a common site as the city and country rebuilds itself after years
of war and years of Taliban rule, Local missionary Heather Bellamy is returning
to the country to work with women and children. HEATHER BELLAMY PHOTO

A garden of peace

planned in

A LOCAL missionary is flying back to
Kabul, Afghanistan today to organize a
project for women, children and those in-
jured from years of fighting in the country.

Heather Bellamy, with Calgary-based
Samaritan’s Purse, has spent more than
eight years working with Afghan refugees
in Pakistan, but this is her first opportun-
ity to work in Afghanistan itself.

She and another Canadian missionary
have a goal of persuading Afghan king
Zahir Shah to turn over a once-lush piece
of property called Karez Amir, 30 min-
utes north of Kabul, the capital of Afgha-
nistan.

Their plan is two-fold — to create a
place where women and families can
come to enjoy peace, quiet and greenery
and a place where income-generating
market gardens can be planted.

The location, as was the case with
many other properties, was denuded and
destroyed during the reign of the Taliban
which ended last. year.

Bellamy and the other missionary, fel-
low Canadian Datla Milne, spent the
spring in Kabul establishing a residence
and scouting locations for their project.

“I had a sense God was building in my
heart a dream for a healing garden for
women and kids,” said Bellamy last
week,

The plan is to use intensive gardening ©

methods to bring the area back to life.
They’re calling the work the Gardens
Afghanistan Project. (The first three let-
ters form the word ‘gap’ which in the
Farsi language means “to speak.”)

A ruined greenhouse on the property
can be restored and several other heavily
damaged buildings can also be repaired,

Bellamy said Kabul is an exciting
place to be as the city and the country te-
builds from years of internal fighting and,
in particular, from years of Taliban rule,

“People are coming back. They're
moving back into their ruined houses and
are rebuilding. You hear the sounds of
saws and hammers everywhere.”

It’s particularly exciting for Bellamy
because she keeps running into people

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Kabul

she taught in Paki-
stan. Because they
learned English,
they are finding
jobs with relief or-
ganizations and
that’s giving them
the means to re-
build their own
homes. But Kabul is
still a relatively
dangerous place.

Just recently a
car bomb went off
in the central mar-
ketplace and crime is prevalent.

“There’s a level of real desperate
crime — it is either economics or a sense
of lawlessness. ‘Lawlessness is still boil-
ing under the surface very much,
Bellamy.

A foreign-backed police force does
offer some protection in Kabul and other
major cities but not in the outlying areas.

“We have a personally-imposed
curfew,” said Bellamy. “By dark, we’re
inside.” ,

While Bellamy and Milne plan for the
market garden project, they are undertak-
ing a smaller seale one right in the mid-
dle of Kabul.

‘For years, women could come to the
Women’s Garden of Kabul, “Bagh-e-Za-
nana,” where they could meet and relax
without needing to wear their burqas.

That ended with the Taliban regime
but a number of relief organizations are
restoring the park.

Bellamy and Milne will training four
Afghan women over the winter to work in
the garden and prepare perennials and
other plants for planting next spring.

“Yt’s so important for women to have a
place they can gather, where they can
take off their burqas and relax,” said Bel-
lamy, “Often, and this applies to low in-
come women, they are behind four walls
and that’s it,” she said.

More information about Bellamy’s work
is available Jrom Samaritan's Purse, 1-800-
663-6500.

Heather
Bellamy

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