Medical Bills for Bibi Haji's Fight with Covid
Bibi Haji survived four decades of war in Afghanistan, our campaign funded delivery of oxygen to her hospital in Kabul. Your continued support helps her family cover the huge cost of medical bills.
Bibi Haiji, the protagonist of an upcoming feature documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker
Carol Dysinger , is an Afghan mother to 11 children and matriarch to an extended family. Bibi has survived the loss of her husband, brothers and one son to war. She held her family together with fierce determination, wisdom and prayer, plus hot tea and nourishing food. The Request: A liter of Oxygen costs $500 in Kabul, hospitals have run out and patients are desperate for help. Working with Bibi’s family, we can help them purchase Oxygen and get it delivered to her in the hospital. The next four days are crucial, please help us raise $7,500 USD.
Update: July 6, 2021 Bibi Haji passed away quietly over the weekend. Thanks to the oxygen that all of you helped provide, she died in her sleep breathing comfortably. Her heart just gave out. Bibi’s family buried her on Monday morning. I ask for your continued support to pay off the family’s medical debt. When I met Bibi in 2010 the family had just finished paying off the medical debt incurred for her son, Fahim, a civilian casualty of the war in Afghanistan. This incident is the subject of One Bullet the documentary, the reason for my involvement with the family and my friendship with Bibi. America and the West did not help her family then, when troop levels were high.
As US troops depart Afghanistan, we can help this family now, so that they can say, as her son Nadir said to me, "Thank you for being there when we needed you." 
As documentary filmmakers, we are privileged to listen to and capture the stories of individuals whose life experiences are eminently worthy of being shared; we bear some responsibility towards them. While we seek to maintain a certain journalistic distance, if we’re lucky over time, our “subjects” become friends. I’ve given as much as I can, and the family has borrowed $5,000 at an exorbitant interest rate. Your help can make the difference.
With deep appreciation, Carol
ABOUT THE FILM 
The film, One Bullet Afghanistan is the third in a trilogy which includes Camp Victory Afghanistan (2010), Learning to Skateboard in A Warzone (if you’re a girl) (Oscar Winner Documentary Short 2019). Carol has been traveling to Afghanistan since 2004 and has followed Bibi’s story for more than a decade. Often breaking the journalist / subject wall by bringing blood pressure medication from Brooklyn to Kabul, and becoming life-long friends.
One Bullet Afghanistan takes us behind the curtains and beneath the veil as an Afghan mother fights for her family’s survival when her youngest son is shot by unknown forces. A documentary filmmaker’s encounter with a young wounded Afghan in a military hospital sets in motion an unusual and intimate story between two women – the indomitable Bibi Hajji, the mother of the boy, and a woman from the country that may well bear responsibility for the bullet that shot him. In One Bullet Afghanistan, the story of war and its effects are seen from the perspective
of fiercely-determined and courageous civilian women.
