Many American charitable groups, including churches, have voiced concern about the plight of women in Afghanistan. News comes from the Missoulian (Missoula, MT) that one group is doing something more than talk about it. The St. Ann of Bonner and Seeley Lake parishes have been collecting iodized salt from its congregants and mailing the donations from its SALT program to prevent IDD in Afghanistan. The media story noted the concern when the packaged white powder was opened in a spill at the local post office.

The salt is distributed through an Egyptian and a Korean hospital and valued by the women who would otherwise be unable to attract husbands through disfiguring goiters.