KYOTO -- Although international aid has flowed into Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime last October, Afghan people living far from Kabul are still suffering from malnourishment and a poor living and education environment, according to a Kyoto-based nonprofit organization.
Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development (NICCO) has been providing people in Herat, western Afghanistan, with medical and educational support since February.
In May, it began offering medical tests for and treatment of tuberculosis in a major hospital in Gulran, about a four-hour drive to the northwest of Herat, as well as treatment at a clinic in a village in cooperation with the government of Hamid Karzai, local authorities and the World Health Organization.