Annie and I volunteered to sponsor a recently-arrived Afghan refugee family of ELEVEN PEOPLE consisting of five children aged 2 months to twelve years old and six adults aged twenty to mid-forties. I visited them in the hotel they're staying at (they needed five rooms) and they gave me tea and were very thankful for any help. My sister is sponsoring another local family and connected me with this family. We are lucky to have them as new neighbors, these are good people whose lives have been completely flipped upside down. After weeks of moving around Kabul to avoid Taliban detection when the city fell this family escaped from the Kabul Airport in late-August days before it closed because the father helped the US Embassy work on agriculture sustainability projects given his specialty in this field. He was a professor at Kabul University. He and his children speak great English because of this. They spent time in a refugee camp in Germany and have been in Utah for three weeks. They got out with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. They have a couple changes of clothes and no winter clothes. They also have no flatware, bowls, cups, plates, etc. That is all they're asking for and that's all this initial fund aims to provide them with. Once they are placed in a home hopefully next month then donated furniture, towels, cooking utensils, etc. will be the next thing we work to help them with. "Because I have been given much I too must give"