Nangarhar PRT visits licensed rickshaw factory

(From left to right) Dr. Rodney Stubina, Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team senior field program officer from Gainesville, Fla.; Mouhsen Habib, Nangarhar PRT provincial governance and development officer from Lake Forest, Calif.; and Laiq Shah, Nangarhar PRT senior deputy field program officer, talk with Halliem Gul, owner of the only licensed rickshaw factory in the Nangarhar Province March 2.



U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Anderson, Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team commander from Dallas, watches two of the 30 employees at the rickshaw factory in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province attach an engine onto its frame March 2.



Halliem Gul (left), owner of the only licensed rickshaw factory in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan, explains the process to fabricate some of the parts used during assembly to Laiq Shah (right), Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team senior deputy field program officer, and Dr. Rodney Stubina, Nangarhar PRT senior field program officer from Gainesville, Fla., March 2.

During a tour March 2 at the only licensed rickshaw factory in Nangarhar, vehicle bodies are stacked to the ceiling waiting to be placed on a frame. The factory generally produces about 30 rickshaws a month.