Faisal Haidari
On assignment as project coordinator in Afghanistan
Name
Faisal Haidari
Age
41 years
Profession
Project coordinator
Country of operation
Afghanistan
Duration of mission
since 2001
My everyday life in the project:
I really don’t have a classic “everyday life” in the project at all. As a project coordinator, various duties fall within my scope of responsibilities. This includes, but is not limited to, construction oversight, various cost negotiations, directing staff, purchasing medications and supplies, communicating and negotiating with government agencies, project visits, and billing.
My spare time at the project:
As soon as I have some time for myself, I try to exercise. Most of all I enjoy playing soccer or volleyball. Otherwise, I try to spend time with my family.
I particularly appreciated:
That Cap Anamur does not missionize and no funds are wasted.
I am also grateful for the trust that has been placed in me.
I especially missed:
Since I am from Afghanistan, I am lucky to be able to work in the project and still have my family and friends close by.
My plans for the future:
As long as the security situation and my health allow it, I am committed to helping Cap Anamur in Afghanistan.
My best memories of my time on the project:
After so many years in the project with so many beautiful memories, it is really difficult to choose a favorite one. We have been able to make so much difference here in Afghanistan and help so many people.
A very special memory to me will always be the first time in Tahar with Rupert Neudeck and Andreas Herr.
Team members in portrait
Thorsten Kirsch works as a nurse for Cap Anamur in Somaliland. His most important piece of luggage for the trip: His guitar. Being involved in areas where his strengths lie and having an incredible number of opportunities for further training - Thorsten has taken a lot away for himself from his assignment.
Pediatric nurse Simone Ross had great experiences in both Sierra Leone and Uganda. Working in the emergency room, in the infant and pediatric wards, training local staff, organizing materials for the laboratory - the varied and diverse tasks were what she appreciated most about her work in the project.
As project coordinator, Shabbir Ahmed takes care of the health care facilities in Bangladesh with which Cap Anamur has cooperation agreements.
Midwife Sarah Schütz worked for six months in the Central African Republic at our hospital in Bossembélé. There she helped deliver many children including twins and premature babies.
Nurse Nele Grapentin's first mission took her to Uganda, but it is by no means to be her last mission for Cap Anamur. The curiosity of the children, the incredible strength of the Ugandan women and such a diverse country - when Nele Grapentin talks about her mission, she quickly goes into raptures.
Mathias Voss, a nurse, spent more than a year working in our hospital in Sudan. His duties included ward, emergency room or maternal-child clinic rounds and continuing education for local staff members.
Above all, the strong women impressed nurse Karina Busemann in Somaliland. If she had to list all the fond memories she has of her time on the project, it would probably make an entire book. The laughing children will remain in her memory for a long time.
Pediatrician Dorothea Kumpf was in Somalia for Cap Anamur. For six months, the young woman worked in a hospital in Somalialand, an area in the north of the country. Especially the open nature of the population remained in her lasting memory.
The nurse Anika Wentz talks about her 6 month assignment in our hospital in the Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. There, she experienced many things that impress her to this day.
Andreas Tsukalas works as an architect for Cap Anamur in Somaliland. This is already his sixth deployment.
Afghan-born Faisal Haidari works as a project coordinator for Cap Anamur in Afghanistan. Since 2001, the Afghan, of Tajik descent, has been taking care of the progress of Cap Anamur projects in troubled Afghanistan.