One of our major roles was to do an assessment on, for the most part, Sarposa Prison and, as I indicated, to a lesser degree with the NDS and ANP detention centres, with regard to infrastructure and training.
The first concrete example we have of this, I guess to a certain degree, is some quick-impact projects that had to do with medical aid, and then there were some longer and more significant projects that came through the global peace and security fund. For the time I was there, that was approved. It was a $1.6 million project that looked at a variety of things. I talked about the issues of health and safety around the septic system and the sewer system, and we had that completely upgraded. We were able to install security towers on the perimeter. We were able to provide security lighting for night-time visuals. We were able to provide secure escort vehicles instead of the prison having to use a taxi service. We were able to provide uniforms. We provided flashlights. We provided officer training. We built a carpentry shop for the prisoners for vocational training. We bought looms for a carpet-weaving program for the prisoners.
We also involved other agencies in order to bring in literacy training for the prisoners and the staff, because a lot of the staff were illiterate. We looked at basic officer training and connecting with the training that was being provided in Kabul and trying to provide similar training in Kandahar. There was just a lot of mentoring and being there, allowing them to ask questions, seeing things, pointing out a different way of maybe going about doing business that would be more consistent with the standards.