My love of China comes from working with these wonderful, hard-working people in rural settings, providing them with the opportunity and dignity they deserve.

Shabibi Shah has been longing to return home for 22 years: the reality was a shock.

Torabi (28) left Kabul in 1992, when he was 16, and fled with his whole family to Peshawar in Pakistan. Before their exile, his father had managed a hospital in Kabul.

Afghanistan is still waiting for freedom from hunger, disease and violence, writes Anila Daulatzai

Three out of five children in Afghanistan are orphans. Jane Mills meets an Afghan refugee who is determined to help them.

In recent years LFL has turned its attention to 3,500 Afghan refugee children - girls and boys - living in and around Peshawar. As the two million Afghan refugees in Pakistan begin to return home - a process which is expected to take at least two years - LFL aims to expand into Afghanistan itself.

Even the worst of tragedies may bear some fruit. That's clearly the case in America in the wake of 11 September.