Motherland Afghanistan

Product Description Afghanistan today has the second highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. After nearly thirty years of war and occupation, the nation's medical system has been devastated and its doctors and other medical personnel are poorly trained. Afghans had hoped that the U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001 would bring improvements in women's health and education, but the rights of Afghan women to adequate healthcare are still denied. In Motherland Afghanistan, Afghan-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi vividly reveals the extent of this tragedy by documenting the 2003 return to Afghanistan of her father, an OB/GYN who emigrated to the U.S. in 1972, as he attempts to rehabilitate the largest women's hospital in the country with the promised support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After waiting four months for desperately-needed equipment and supplies and struggling to work amidst frustrating and heartbreaking conditions, the staff must take up a collection to buy medical supplies at a local pharmacy. The only indication of U.S. sponsorship is that the hospital's maternity ward has been named for Laura Bush. Dr. Mojadidi acknowledges that he has made a "huge mistake" in accepting the position and returns home; two years later, he journeys to Afghanistan again, this time to work with an Afghan NGO to train the staff at a large rural hospital. Sedika Mojadidi movingly documents her father's heroic efforts to make a difference in his beleaguered homeland, and the result is an inspiring portrait of dedication and fortitude in some of the most harsh and unforgiving physical, political and cultural terrain on Earth. Review A rare and moving glimpse of humanity and the power of compassion. --AFI Film Festival You won't remain unmoved. --LA Weekly
ASIN: B000LPS4M0
VSKU: DBV.B000LPS4M0.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Dr. Qudrat Mojadidi|Sedika Mojadidi
Binding: Dvd
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!