The Tetsu Nakamura Story: The Doctor Who Turned the Deserts Green.

This is an animation of the life of a doctor, who bore wells and made irrigation canals to save Afghans. Tetsu Nakamura had been just an ordinary boy who loved collecting insects before he realized his new roles through the experience of overseas dispatching.
In 1946, Tetsu was born in the city of Fukuoka. While he rushed around hills and fields for insects, his grandmother’s teaching, “protect the weak willingly,” greatly affected him in his lifetime. Graduating from Kyushu University School of Medicine, he became a doctor and committed himself to the treatment of leprosy at the time when there was still a prejudice in Japanese society against it.
In 1978, Tetsu accompanied a mountaineering party which visited Pakistan. After that he was dispatched to Peshawar, which was the beginning of his overseas activities. Later, he moved to Afghanistan, next to Pakistan, and practiced regional medicine there.
Tetsu felt that medical treatment was not the sole means to save human lives. He believed that maintaining water fundamentally makes life healthy and that water also creates jobs. Therefore, he bore a large number of wells and made irrigation canals with local people. As a result, they succeeded in greening the arid land, beginning the revitalization of the Afghan community.
Unfortunately, in 2019, Tetsu was shot to death in Afghanistan, where he was still working. Afghans, however, were profoundly grieved at his death and made postage stamps bearing his image in order to remember him. Peshawar-kai (Peshawar Association in Japanese) is following his footsteps by continuing the support.
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