My 105 days in Taliban prison -- and a call to aid Afghanistan | Safi Rauf

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Sharing his experience of being held captive in a Taliban prison for 105 days, humanitarian Safi Rauf talks about his life's mission to get food, medicine and other critical supplies to Afghans in need -- and urges the world to bolster aid and establish a peaceful presence in the country during these extraordinarily difficult times. (This talk was recorded on April 12, 2022)

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0:00.0	It's Ted Talks Daily.
0:05.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:07.3	Nine million Afghans are living in extreme poverty, and Taliban rule means there are
0:12.7	few ways for a humanitarian aid from wealthier nations to reach them.
0:17.4	In his talk from Ted 2022, humanitarian Safi Ralph shares ideas on what steps to take
0:22.4	next to get resources into the hands of Afghans who desperately need them, many of them, who
0:28.0	fought alongside Americans for decades.
0:31.2	This talk was recorded on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.
0:37.5	Support for Ted Talks Daily comes from Airbnb.
0:40.2	Okay, every time you stay at an Airbnb, do you ever wonder, could my place at home actually
0:46.4	be an Airbnb, could I rent it out?
0:49.0	And if I could, what would it earn?
0:51.1	I think about this sometimes, myself.
0:53.6	So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lucy and Worcestershire, who realized she could
0:58.6	convert her empty barn space into a one-bedroom Airbnb.
1:03.0	How creative, right?
1:04.2	Now her extra income allows her to focus on her family, as a new mom.
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1:13.2	It's 8.15 pm in Afghanistan right now.
1:20.4	And at this time, 10 days ago, I was sitting in an 8-foot-by-8-foot cell in the basement
1:24.8	of a maximum security prison in Kabul, where I was being held captive by the Taliban.
1:30.7	I'd been in that cell for 104 days, and yet I was one of the lucky ones.
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