Even though Australia has done terrible things, Australians can stand by our friends who have been thriving over the past 20 years in Afghanistan

Force Preparation is a week-long course that every Australian Defence Force (ADF) member, as well as journalists, completed before heading to Afghanistan.

The men and women of the ADF were put through their paces, disarming AK47s, learning how to survive kidnap scenarios and being medically tested.

Related: No Andrew Hastie, not ‘every’ Afghan interpreter ‘on the ground’ has had their cases sorted by Australia | David Savage

Related: I was there to help the good people of Afghanistan. Now I feel as though we failed them | Grant Edwards

Related: The trauma of Afghanistan echoes through generations of my family | Mariam Tokhi

Ben Quilty is a multi-award winning Australian artist

Ben Quilty is raising money for UNCHR here. Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has agreed to match every $1 of donation up to $1 million.

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.