I'm looking for housemates in a beautiful place in Share-Naw that I'm taking on starting July 1 (not MOSS-compliant). It's a two-story place with a wonderful big garden already planted with trees and roses galore.
 
It'll be a four-person house: three upstairs bedrooms that share a bathroom and then a two-room suite downstairs with its own bathroom and a separate entrance. Plenty of common space and nice kitchen.
 
Base monthly rent ranges from $500-$900, with additional utility/guards/cleaner/gardener/internet costs of approx $300 a person.
 
I'm going to be out of town for a week starting Tuesday so would love to get people who are interested to drop by and check out house over the next couple days. If interested, please email me at zeugmite@gmail.com

US Construction company is looking for professional cook.
If interested, email your phone number to julianne779@yahoo.com and we'll contact you for interview.

MISSING CHILD.
16th May, Kandahar road, Ghazni area, Wardak Province. A child was hit by a car on the main Kandahar road. The child was picked up into the vehicle and removed from the scene, possibly taken to a nearby PRT unit.
Child's name - Farhad
Age - 8
Vehicle involved - only info is white - possibly rental car, type unknown.
Individuals involved - local, possibly PRT related staff.

There is little else to go on. Nobody from the child's family, parents or otherwise, still to date have no idea what happened or where he is. Needless to say they are totally distraught.
If anybody has any info, or has heard anything at all that even sounds like it may be related, contact via here.
Please, no info - no reply. FYI local authorities are already aware, this is an 'outside chance' request.

Reference Qfattulah House, please contact me, interested in discussing: anckly@yahoo.com.

Hey -- responding to the message below in case you're still looking. If so, please drop me an email: mgz9siq02@sneakemail.com

annonymous 3332
29-04-2009 12:45 AF
 
I - foreign female - have a room to sublet in a cosy little house in Quallah-e-Fatullah, St. 4, seperate small private bathroom is being renovated (some costsharing for renovation costs would be expected), usage of common kitchen, small garden, terrace, cable TV - monthly rental 300US$ + sharing of utility costs. I'm preferring a nice foreign female who is tidy. Long-term tenant preferred, available in 2 - 3 weeks. Leave me a reply in this chat room with your contact details and I'll contact you (sorry - can't be too careful)

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Ndeye- There are small shops scattered around that sell second hand furniture but not in quantity. Your best bet would be to send an Afghan (because they will charge expats more) to the shops in front of "wulayat" they sell fairly cheap chinese furniture.

Lot's of options for second hand furniture. Ask your driver. You can buy, for example, second hand living room furniture, buy decent fabric to recover them from a suit material shop, and take them for reupholstering. They strip them down to the springs and re-stuff them, so they are quite comfortable. I've just furnished my place this way: example of cost - couch and two chairs, solid wood, nice lines, $80 in second hand market, fabric (good quality corduroy) $25, transportation $20 (to and from upholsterer); re-covering - $25. Total $150 for a living room that people remark on... You can also get furniture made fairly reasonably ... any carpenter will follow a design. (coffee table suitable for four people to dine, afghan style: $80. Desk with two drawers $90. Custom made kingsized bed and night tables - $160. Let me know if you want more info. You can buy cheap new furniture (Pakistani or Chinese) at Makria. It's pretty horrid but functional.
- Bazaar Shopper

You seem to have created quite a stir. Bravo!

Some thoughts for you to consider: A couple of months ago I went to Bamiyan from Kabul in a private, non-armored vehicle via the southern route, which is still in pretty terrible condition, even in a 4X4. We stopped at the top of the pass, which was still covered in about 8 inches of slushy snow. A Lite Ace was stuck there and didn't look like they would be going anywhere soon... it was 4:00 p.m. and the sun would have lasted about another hour. We stopped (two women, two men - a Canadian, two Americans and our Afghan driver) and took ten minutes to tie a rope and pull them out. There were three women and two small babies in the stuck vehicle as well as three men, one of them elderly. They'd been there for more than three hours without anyone stopping to assist them, and several United Nations vehicles, one one from the International Red Cross. You can imagine how grateful they were. I have no idea what might have happened to them if we hadn't stopped... Such a simple act of kindness was probably the best ambassadorial action I've witnessed in this country in 2 years. It astounds me that the greedy security companies have managed to scare people so much that they actually believe, like one poster here, that they really do risk harm by going to the market. In my view, those people who are afraid of Afghans should count their money and go home.

That said, and while I firmly believe (and so do ADB and the Agha Khan Foundation) that tourism has huge potential for certain parts of the country, I think a bicycle tour is probably premature because there are many places that would find strangers threatening. There are places here where you can be killed for a cellphone or laptop, so your fancy bikes would probably attract too much attention.

Let us know what you decide.

- no fear in Kabul.

Is there a second hand market for furniture in Kabul? I need beds, wardrobes, dining table and chairs, sofa etc.
Any tips welcome!
Thanks

Some 20 new job positions with UNAMA for nationals of Afghanistan.

Click on MISSION JOB OPPORTUNITIES at www.unama.unmissions.org.

Mia Jarlov (1976-2009)

Dear All,

It is with the deepest sorrow that I announce the passing of our dear friend and colleague Mia Jarlov, at the age of 33 after a courageous four-year battle with cancer.

As many old Afghan hands know, Mia was one of the very best and the brightest of those who flocked to Kabul in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, the fall of the Taliban, and the hope for a reborn Afghanistan. A committed yet critical journalist and a passionate advocate for women's rights, Mia was a true friend of Afghanistan in every sense of the word. She was also a special friend to all of us who knew her at the Mustafa Hotel in that magical summer of 2002, when everything seemed possible. Her own grasp of possibilities ranged from teaching media skills to aspiring Afghan women journalists to engaging in scintillating debates with colleagues to knowing just the right moment to head over to the bakery across the street from the Mustafa, when the nan would be fresh and perfect.

Mia's passing is a loss to the world, in a quite definite sense in that she was a consummate cosmopolitan, equally at home in her native Denmark, coming-of-age countries of Britain and Spain, and adventure locales of Afghanistan and America. That she polished all of this off with a degree in International Relations from the New School For Social Research despite her illness is proof positive that she was the ultimate planetary citizen.

After Wais Faizi passed away, Mia memorably posted on the Survival Guide to Kabul Bulletin Board the sentiment "that cheeky crooked smile will warm my heart forever."

Mia's beaming, eternally optimistic smile and the memory of the deep humanity it expressed will warm the heart of we who are called to carry on her work forever.

Vanni Cappelli

President

AFPA

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URGENT NEED for US citizens fluent in Pashto and Dari; details of role below. Several positions available. If you or someone you know meets the requirements and is interested, please contact me at: mark.turner@resourcesglobal.com



Pashto/Dari Linguist Position
 
Compensation: US$210,000 per year as an independent contractor
   
Benefits Package (Aetna Global Benefits):
--Complete Health Care Package for you and your family
-- 401k Retirement Plan
-- Life Insurance

Vacation/Leave:
--10 days paid time off after 6 months of service (20 days after 1 year of service)

Requirements:
-- Must be a U.S. Citizen, fluent in speaking Pashto and Dari
-- Must be willing to obtain a security clearance
-- Must be willing to travel overseas, in this case, Afghanistan

Duties:
--Provide operational contract linguist support to U.S. Army operations
in Afghanistan
--Provide general linguistic support for military operations and
interpret during interviews, meetings, and conferences
--Interpret and translate written and spoken communications
-- Transcribe and analyze communications
-- Perform document exploitation
--Scan, research, and analyze foreign language documents for key
information
--Translate foreign language documents
-- Identify and extract information components meeting military
information requirements
--Provide input to reports