Jack Gruber | Photojournalist Javad, 9, watches over his family donkeys loaded down with wheat distributed as payment to workers who have worked 35 days on civic and other improvement projects near The Village of Anbar Somuch 25 kilometers west of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan. Without the food aid, many of the Afghan high country villagers would starve or have to flee their homes which they just returned to after the Taliban fall. © 2002 USA TODAY