GENEVA - A Swiss aid organization has resumed work in Afghanistan since a kidnapping and the daring rescue of two female workers and their Afghan colleagues.

Medair, a humanitarian non-governmental organization based near Lausanne, Switzerland, temporarily suspended all Afghan projects after Helen Johnston, 28, from Britain, and Moragwa Oirere, 26, from Kenya, and their two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped on May 22 while travelling on horseback in Badakhshan.

Medair spokeswoman Janneke de Kruijf said Friday the organization is "deeply relieved" they are safe and reunited with their families, and it has resumed building clean water facilities and latrines for remote villages and schools and promoting better health and hygiene.

In early June, NATO and Afghan forces plucked the aid workers from a cave after learning the Taliban planned to kill a hostage.

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