Good morning!
We have a cool and calm Sunday after sitting and service together, supporting each other for all. Late last night I forwarded a link to an NHK ETV Special, Not Weapons, but Water of Life: M.D. Nakamura Tetsu and Afghanistan, to our listserv, along with a short English explanation of the video. Please watch it. Enmity never appeases enmity, but no enmity and peace-prognosis prospers!
Dr. Nakamura, sent to Pakistan in 1984 as part of an International Medical team, moved to Afghanistan in 1991 for medical service. In 2000, seeing sick and starving people facing a once-a-century drought with four million people straying near the starvation line, he decided to make a water intake to irrigate the Death Desert, Gamberi, into a “Great Green Land,” the key to their future.
In such a state, at such a time, the American air raid started. His notes said, “Bush roars of reprisal and Americans applaud. TVs feature an unknown country, Afghanistan. All seem to be charmed. Our civilization has floating feet from the great earth. It made me heartily sad.” He decided to take off his white uniform to work to provide water and food, beyond these in luxury.
The Great Green Land Project started in 2003, and seven years later it turned the Death Desert into a Life Land with the Malwarid Intake irrigating 3,000ha, green fields of wheat, rice, fruit, cattle, fish, etc., saving about 100,000 people (16,000ha, 600,000 people, 2% of the Afghan population in 2015). The people were more delighted with their traditional mosque and madrassa (school).
He noted, “They fly to kill; we dig earth to live…There is happiness and joy on the earth they don’t understand. We know the joy of getting water on dry land, the jumping life of children playing…and these are the base of peace.” “All living beings are living in harmony. This is proof of grace (of production). Even if this is in a corner of the world, I am thankful for witnessing it in front.
9/11/16
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4sva35
