The Chief of the CIMIC, LcL Jacquer, and his staff collected donations of clothing and toys from friends and families in Europe. The CIMIC and ISAF delivered the first shipment to the Allauddin Orphanage on Dec. 30, 2004. A second delivery to the Tahai Maskan Orphanage is scheduled for January 4, 2005. The CIMIC has also collected donations for library books and is working with Ms. Hakim to expand the program to orphanages in other Provinces.

US Army Corps of Engineers - Field Force Engineering Team New York District Newsletter Spring 2004 Pages 6 & 7. You can read the article at the link below. The page takes some time to laod. http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/news/dtimes/spring04.pdf

ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings aired an evening news report filed by Bob Woodruff "Saving the Children: One Woman Comes to the Aid of Afghanistan's Most Vulnerable".This report was an interview with Soraya Hakim at the orphanage in Kabul. It aired on March 31, 2004. A partial transcript is listed.

By Bob Woodruff
K A B U L, Afghanistan, March 31 - Soraya Hakim walks through Kabul's central orphanage faster than most people jog.
In a country where years of war and oppression have taken a toll on the population's work ethic, she is a welcome relief.
She checks on the kitchen staff sweating over giant vats of soup, tours the showers where the water long ago stopped flowing, and gently pulls two young boys into her arms like the mother they no longer have.
"These are the school's leaders," she says in English. "They are Afghanistan's future."
Last year, Hakim left her comfortable life in California to take charge of Afghanistan's 2 million orphans, and she is appalled by what's she's found.
Nearly two years after the fall of the Taliban, the conditions at Kabul's main orphanage, the Wafia Education and Training Center for Orphans, remain almost medieval.