COVID-19 won’t deter annual humanitarian aid to Afghanistan

With boxes and bags of donations piled high on his Lafayette front porch, Budd MacKenzie is undeterred by the pandemic when it comes to sending an annual shipment of donations to Afghanistan. 

In its eleventh year, the annual donation collection by Trust in Education — a grassroots organization that provides educational, economic and health care assistance to villages in Afghanistan — gathers clean clothes, shoes, school supplies, pots, pans and more before shipping off the items.