Helping Afghan Farmers, One Thread at a Time

In 2010, Kimberly Jung was a lieutenant in the United States Army, overseeing a platoon of forty soldiers in Afghanistan. Her team did route surveys, where they’d search for and remove roadside bombs to keep roads safe for both military personnel and civilians. It took complicated machinery and a lot of guessing to find the deeply buried bombs, and often, insurgents would replace them mere hours later. “It was an endless cycle that didn’t...