Photographs by Chris Bell and Tom Jeckel

From Discourse 5

Chris Bell

From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban government in Afghanistan outlawed kite flying, calling it “un-Islamic.” After the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, kites began to return.

In 2003, Tom Jeckel helped produce 10,000 sled kites from ripstop nylon for children in Kabul. United Nations peace troops distributed the kites

to local schools.

For more information on this effort: http://subvision.net/sky/planetkite/ middle-east/afghanistan/

Chris Bell

Tom Jeckel

Chris Bell, except noted