Watch free video Return To Hope

NATO’s new Return to Hope website weaves together the story of Afghanistan as told by some of the extraordinary people who returned there, determined to help create a better country:
- an ISAF paratrooper who lost a leg to an improvised explosive device but returned to combat duty a year-and-a-half later;
- an 86-year-old American historian and archivist who has documented Afghanistan’s history since the 1960s, despite being thrown out for a decade by the Soviets and kept out by the Taliban;
- a TV presenter who began his career as a child radio broadcaster during the whose TV shows today attract millions of Afghan viewers each week;
- a musician and scholar who left a life of ease in the West to bring music back to Afghanistan after the Taliban banned it;
- a young entrepreneur, the first female CEO of an Afghan technology company, who dedicates her life to educating women, despite death threats; and
- a commando who stares death in the face to defend his nation.