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Today, by God's grace, I was able to determine that I had offers for my advanced training from one of the Harvard Hospitals and Washington University, both with major heart transplant and heart failure capabilities. I will make my decision in the coming month. I note this not to advertise my success, but rather to rally folks here to this cause. I strongly advocate that when you begin an effort, people should feel that they are investing in something solid and grounded. As this effort proceeds, I will begin to make my identity known and disclose my medical credentials so that any who contribute even a dollar will be able to investigate me, my affiliations, and my academic goals. Per my calculations, in about 2 and a half years I shall be able to secure enough consistent financing from my own work to give this project a shot in the arm. In the mean time, moonlighting shifts will also help, I hope.
What I will need are the contacts here. I know I said this before, but this time I mean it. In order to make this work, I plan on devoting 100% of my PF time to this effort and abandoning the vain talk I got so used to in the political forums section. My hope is that even those that have disagreed wtih me involve themselves in this work and we can forge a common link.
Here is what we need in to do, in my opinion in the coming months.
1. I need the help of the folks here from both Afghanistan and Pakistan, with contacts familiar with the education system and the economics behind going to school in these regions to step forward. These folks should serve on an exploratory committee. I do not care what your political or religious views are; if you can help us gather the information we need, then that is all I care about.
2. The folks in 1 should be vetted by someone like Admin Khan and should have actual strong links and an ability to maneuver/be aware in those extremely corrupt and convoluted system.
3. Preferably, these folks will be familiar with the way engineering and medical schooling works over there and the costs associated with various institutions, from the most prestigious ones to the average ones. They will also be able to understand the entrance criteria and generalities of the education systems in both countries.
4. Brainstorm a way to collect contributions: perhaps a paypal account controlled exclusively by Admin Khan and him alone?? Brain storm a way to keep this effort going and to sustain it.
5. As we flesh out the information above, we can begin to think about where to advertise to a large audience of Pashtun professionals.
I will talk to Dr. Wazir and ascertain how he set up the Ayesha Wazir Merit Scholarship and how he navigated the complex waters/distrubted the funds/ensured things went according to plan.
People should understand that this is going to take a while, probably about 2-3 years to get off the ground.
As an example of a person that could help: so Luffy attends medical schooling in Pakistan... we would need someone like him to give an honest estimate of what costs a student from say the poorest Pashtun districts would face should he have the chance to attend Aga Khan. This should include estimates of reasonable boarding, books, tuition feeds etc.
Or if Toramana, being an engineer, would be able to do the same for Peshawar University.
Perhaps Laila's relatives from Nangrahar could provide us actual estimates as well.
Admin and I could probably get estimates regarding the Helmand region (e.g. if Mir Wais affiliates with the up and coming Kandahar University to start a medical school).
One need not be a doctor or an engineer.. all we need are links to respectable folks that have the ability to provide the information in question.
lol. Tawk kum darsaraa.
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