CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, well troops -- U.S. troops in Afghanistan aren't just conducting military maneuvers. Some are also doing important humanitarian work. And they took us along for this exclusive look. CNN's Alex Quade explains.</s>ALEX QUADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to Kunduz, Afghanistan, where members of the U.S. Army are helping repair the town's infrastructure.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's amazing. I mean, we'll go into a school. And you would look at it and say, oh yes, they can't be meeting here because this place is just trashed. The Taliban would live in it. They would burn their cookfires right there in the middle of the a classroom. And you think, well this place is just too much of a mess. And then you walk down the hall and realize there's kids already having class.</s>QUADE: One hundred students come here. The Army's civil affairs unit hopes to fix it up for 200 more students by year's end. This is the unit's seventh humanitarian project.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We get to see young kids going back to school for the first time in five, six years.</s>QUADE: Children going back to class are met by posters warning them of mines and unexploded ordinance. And workers on these humanitarian projects are protected by armed guards. With the help of local residents, they've renovated four other schools, the hospital, this grain ware house, even arranged for clean drinking water.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can think of this as a two part war. The first part of the war is to get rid of the bad guys, in this case the Taliban. And the second part of that war is coming in and helping the people of Afghanistan who have been victimized by the Taliban, helping them to get back on their feet.</s>QUADE: Alex Quade, CNN.
U.S. Troops Involved in Humanitarian Work in Afghanistan