In the forgotten Afghan province of Kunar, a village rebuilds after the earthquake – far from the world’s attention
In the village of Spedar, walnuts fall from the trees, and if you listen closely, you can hear the thud. There’s also the babbling of a stream, the lowing of cows, and the distant crowing of a rooster breaking the silence. Girls carry bundles of dry corn stalks and grass from the fields.
From above, from the mountainside, the village appears serene. But on the other side of the valley, ruined houses mar the pastoral idyll.
“My son died in one of those houses,” says a man with a dark, weather-beaten face. “Some of our animals are…
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