Afghanistan – vote for your favourite picture for the calendar

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[Christopher]

Welcome to the first round of voting which is open until Monday 17th (5 days total).

There are 16 concurrent polls (one for each country) – remember to vote in each one.

Below are links to each  entrepreneurs' profile and a thumbnail (which in turn is linked to the full-sized image – be warned some are a couple of MB or more)

The winner of each country will then go through to the next round of voting*. (Results will be available after the poll has ended).

Kiva profile: Abdul Qauom Abdul Aziz	Kiva profile: Farkhunda Faiz Mohammad	Kiva profile: Fatima Syed Shah Esmil
Kiva profile: Hafiz Allah Galam Sakhi	Kiva profile: Hussnia Ameer Khan	Kiva profile: Khnom Gul Abdul Qayom
Kiva profile: Maryam Wafaee	Kiva profile: Mohammad Din Amam Din	Kiva profile: Mohammad Raza Mohammad Jama
Kiva profile: Mohammad Saleem Mohammad Raheem	Kiva profile: Sahnaz Abo Shah	Kiva profile: Sayed Jalal-u-Din Khilwati

*I am currently reserving the right that if there is a tie I will have the casting vote (I will not have voted in the poll, however tempting it might be).

Where possible the casting vote will be used to ensure:
- a balance of male and female entrepreneurs (as to the Kiva ratio)
- a balance of businesses (farming, shops, repairs, food, markets etc).

If we don't get this balance I propose to open up a new thread to discuss how a balance can be achieved before the next round of voting.

[KivanSteven]

I didnt know where to post this, but great job Christopher, you really came through for us on this one and yours is a huge contribution to this calenders success thus far.  Its a team effort and youre a major player.  In fact any of us participating in the vote are all major players.

[Christopher]

This poll is now locked.  Thank you to everyone who voted - your efforts have gone through to the second round.

Most of the polls in the first round had run away winners, though it seems a couple of them at least were much harder for voters to decide and were closer.

Where the polls were close the runners up (within about 10% of the winner) have also gone through - as have all the countries in the Rest of the World poll.

This has given us a good mix for the second round...