Working in Afghanistan changed my life: Returnee

Mangaluru:

Working in Afghanistan

is life-changing, said Gopalakrishna Gowda,37, from

Shibaraje Guthu house

,

Kalanja village in Belthangady

.

Gopalakrishna worked for Anham, a company that looked into

supplying food

for the

NATO

forces outside Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. He has worked in Afghanistan in different companies, for almost a decade. He told TOI, “I reached home on July 26 after winding up operations. We had an indication that the US may withdraw from the country, by looking at the situation around. We were a bit worried, because we were located right outside the airbase, though we had our own security guards provided by the Afghanistan military. We were trained and briefed on evacuation plans regularly.”

Staying in Afghanistan is life-changing, because the region has frequent earthquakes, and living in the war zone is definitely an adventure. “The safety checks were frequently reviewed. Interestingly, you tend to save a lot of your income, because the expenditure is low,”said Gopalakrishna, who had also worked in Iraq. From March 2016 to July 26, he worked in Afghanistan and for a brief period in the US too. He is currently working for a Bengaluru-based company.