It's a shoestring operation with outsize influence that he runs alongside Executive Director Jamila Raqib.

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"Now I know the meaning of life, how to live, " she says in Pashto, which Jamila translates.

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And as the months wore on, Jamila and Mati understood that they could offer something no organization could.

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Jamila who now works as a full-time lawyer in the capital, is certainly smiling about her new career options.

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For every Jamila, there are far more women who remain outside the workforce.

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"I suffered a lot in my life, " Aesha said, as Jamila translated, days before her first surgery last June.

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Over a two-month period, Jamila, Marie, Shekeba, Mehria, Halima and Gul Markai traveled throughout Afghanistan and discovered a daily life.

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Mati and Jamila had talked about adopting a young child from Haiti or foster care, but now they have Aesha.

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He would relocate the family anywhere in the country if it meant Jamila could do what she's supposed to be doing.

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"Concerning Jamila's plight, one has to ask what is going on in the U.S. concerning attracting and keeping good doctors, " wrote bob.

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Jamila, who speaks six languages, was an OB-GYN in Germany before she permanently moved to the United States to be with Mati.

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Every other night, in the middle of the night, she called Jamila.

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But Jamila, 46, hopes it will lead to a full-fledged residency somewhere.

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And Jamila, who'd been an OBGYN in Germany before moving to the U.S. to join Mati, has struggled to find her way professionally.

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Mati Arsala and Jamila Rasouli-Arsala welcome me into their modest but well-kept town home, which sits in a sleepy subdivision of tract homes and apartments.

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Her husband loses sleep missing Jamila and fretting about her situation.

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And after meeting Mati, his wife Jamila Rasouli-Arsala and their daughter from Jamila's first marriage, Aesha campaigned to join them through months of middle-of-the-night phone calls.

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The phone calls from Aesha began soon after Mati and Jamila met her in July, when she had regaled and delighted them with her humor and stories.

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Mati and Jamila want to give her space to heal.

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Jamila, her mother figure, is gone a lot these days.

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So, seven months ago Jamila tore herself away from her family and took a job at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York, in an effort to change her luck.

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Mati and Jamila discuss politics.

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Jamila has spent the better part of the last year in New York, away from her family, working at a Brooklyn hospital as a house physician -- a low-paying and demanding position open to doctors in her situation -- in hopes it would help her land a residency this spring.

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