FMT in partnership with The Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) brings you a Covid-19 “healer” from Afghanistan.

Lina Sarbeland, 27, is the director of the Balkh Peace Builders Group. Here she is pictured on the phone with a woman who has contracted the coronavirus, emphasising the need to distance herself from her family and the community so that she does not spread the Covid-19 virus to others.

Aside from providing guidance over video and telephone calls to those infected with the coronavirus, Lina also distributes masks in Mazar-e-Sharif with the word ‘peace’ to invite opposition groups to come together to make peace.

She says, “When I see my guidelines and advice have a positive effect on corona’s patients and they become healthy, I become happy to have at least succeeded in saving and rescuing one human.”

Muhammad Atif Aryan was born in Pol-ekhumri of the Baghlan Province of Afghanistan back in 1992. He fled to Mazar-e- Sharif, in the Balkh province, with his family as war and insecurity erupted in the Baghlan province. Aryan began his media career as a reporter in a local radio station in 2011. Aryan has held training programmes for journalists. His training programmes include Photography with Mobiles, News Writing and Writing Articles. View his portfolio here.

‘The Other Hundred Healers’ is an initiative by the non-profit organisation GIFT. The 240-page, full-colour, hardcover book can be purchased here at US$40 per copy for a minimum order of 20 copies.