Outpost

 This is in the province of Khakrez, a 20-minute or so helicopter ride from Kandahar.  It's near a village with maybe 250 families or so, probably 1500 people.  We heard about efforts to establish a women's health clinic.  Male doctors aren't allowed to examine female patients, so unless you can get female health professionals trained, things are likely to remain bleak.  Bleak means this:  1 in 5 babies born in this village die; nearly 1 in 5 mothers die during childbirth.  The day before we visited, a 16-year old girl visited - she was on her fourth pregnancy.  Soon after came a 14-year old; she was on her second.  There is no school.  There is not much agriculture in the area; it's mostly goats and what passes for tourism, since Khakrez is the site of Afghanistan's third most important shrine.  It's the burial place of the man who brought Islam to Afghanistan.  Seems he was murdered by the locals.,  Long afterwards, when people realized the historical importance of the martyr, the shrine was built to honor him and his reputed grave.