To Kandahar and back: Journey of a lifetime

A young SURGE Advisor narrates her first-hand account of deployment to Afghanistan

By Tilini Subodha Kuruppu Arachchige

A SURGE deployment took Tilini Subodha Kuruppu Arachchige on a journey through Afghanistan, from Kabul to Kandahar. Photo: UNDP Afghanistan/Sayeed Farhad Zalmai

I was fortunate to join a United Nations Inter-Agency mission to Kandahar during my SURGE deployment to Afghanistan in November last year. UNDP is ‘staying to deliver’ with the rest of the United Nations to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis…