The Adil Project: Help Rescue 340 Afghan Partners

We need your support to help fund a mission to get 340 Afghan partners and family members out of Afghanistan and into safety quickly!

We're calling this The Adil Project as it began with our coming together to rescue a 16-year-old boy, Adil, out of Kabul who is now reunited safely back with his family in Sacramento, CA. For those who would like to hear the full story on how this got started, please see my personal Facebook Post from August 23 .

Getting Adil safe would not have been possible without the help of  Stacia George and Mark Jacobson , both leaders in the US foreign policy arena and stellar human beings who I owe a profound debt to for their help and who have saved countless other lives already.

Stacia's team has gathered a group of 340 special immigrant visa (SIV) Afghan partners they are working tirelessly to get out of the country. The U.S. government is no longer allowed to operate in Afghanistan, and due to the overwhelming nature of this crisis all forms of ground and air transportation are difficult to come by and extortionate in cost. All 340 are (relatively) safely accommodated awaiting a transportation solution. However, it costs $80,000 per day to house them and it will cost likely $100s of thousands to fly them to safety either from Mazar-i-Sharif or possibly Uzbekistan or Tajikistan. They have buses lined up once airports, roads, and borders are soon open.

My wife Kelsey and I are committed to raising $100,000 of the $2 million needed to help rescue and resettle this group of 340 human rights leaders, journalists, families  and children of interpreters, and others who worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. government.

100% of all funds raised will go directly to frontline-support efforts. Donations have been arranged through our friends at the Coalition of Allied Vietnam War Veterans so they can be fully tax deductible. CAVWV is a group of Vietnam Veterans who rescued Vietnamese and Hmong during the Vietnam War who are now continuing that honored service for Afghan partner refugees.

With gratitude,
Steven  and Kelsey Kling