"Najibah tried to comfort Zahra during a visit to (her father) Baynazar’s grave in November 2015. ...

"Najibah tried to comfort Zahra during a visit to (her father) Baynazar’s grave in November 2015. The family of Baynazar Mohammad Nazar, lost their husband and father. He was under anaesthetic at the MSF Kunduz Trauma Centre in the northern Afghan city when a US AC-130 gunship, whose crew had mistaken it for a legitimate target, destroyed the hospital and killed 41 other patients, carers and staff. Baynazar’s family spent more than a week looking for him, hoping he'd been injured and taken to a hospital in a nearby province, or Kabul, until a local baker found the phone number for Samiullah, Baynazar's eldest son. On October 11, the baker helped ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) staff transport several bodies still in the hospital to a cemetery on the edge of Kunduz. "Stop Searching" he told Samiullah. "Your father is buried on the hill". Life was already tough, but for Baynazar's wife, Najibah and children Samiullah (19), Raiana (10), Zahra (8) and Khalid (6), on top of their grief with no breadwinner, things became increasingly difficult. Samiullah dropped out of school to work medial jobs to support the family and pay rent on their tiny, mud0walled home. I (Quilty) visited the family for the first time in two years last week in Kunduz (April 2019). They have moved into a new house built with money donated by people from across the world who asked how they could help the family after Foreign Policy Magazine published their story. The younger three are all at school and Samiullah is studying computer science at university. He rents an auto-rickshaw he also brought with the help of donations for (US) $30 from which the family can live."