Ripton man teaches in Kabul
Posted on October 29, 2009 |
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RIPTON RESIDENT IAN Pounds stands with some of his young students in one of the three orphanages in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he taught for several months earlier this year.
RIPTON — Ian Pounds had spent years writing and teaching in Ripton, a town with a verdant, pastoral, postcard-like setting.
He recently swapped all that for 140 days of teaching in one of the most dusty and dangerous settings in the world: Afghanistan. Recently returned stateside, Pounds is now telling the gripping story of his four months enlightening orphans in the war-torn city of Kabul — an adventure than seemed quite unlikely only a few years ago.
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