Help my family escape the war
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Hello,
I’m Zohal, an Afghan refugee living in the US who has been here since 2015 when I first came to study here. Unfortunately, as the situation in Afghanistan deteriorated, I wasn’t able to return to my country and haven’t seen my family for 5 years.
I started this Go Fund page when I needed to raise money to help my family, including my 4 year old sister escape Afghanistan. To those of you who donated, you saved my family’s lives. We used the money to fly them from the North of Afghanistan to Kabul where they then travelled to the Afghan-Pakistan border. At one point, we didn’t think they’d make it as the Taliban kept blocking the border crossing. It was touch and go and thankfully they didn’t have to return to Kabul, which has since fallen to the Taliban. On Saturday August 14th, they escaped through the border and fled to Quetta, Pakistan.
Now my family are living as refugees in Quetta with no financial support for daily living costs let alone school. My little sister and three brothers need help and I’m asking friends to donate where they can. We have no idea how long they will be in Quetta, where hundreds of refugees are right now uncertain about the future. Right now, I’m making an appeal for money so I can support them and get them back into school. They’d stopped their education since the Taliban closed the school and their dream right now is to keep studying.
For those that wish to donate, I’m going to provide regular updates here so you can learn about their lives as refugees and know how your donation is helping them.
No donation is too small right now and will go far to my refugee family. Please help them.
Thanks so much for your support.
I’m Zohal, an Afghan refugee living in the US who has been here since 2015 when I first came to study here. Unfortunately, as the situation in Afghanistan deteriorated, I wasn’t able to return to my country and haven’t seen my family for 5 years.
I started this Go Fund page when I needed to raise money to help my family, including my 4 year old sister escape Afghanistan. To those of you who donated, you saved my family’s lives. We used the money to fly them from the North of Afghanistan to Kabul where they then travelled to the Afghan-Pakistan border. At one point, we didn’t think they’d make it as the Taliban kept blocking the border crossing. It was touch and go and thankfully they didn’t have to return to Kabul, which has since fallen to the Taliban. On Saturday August 14th, they escaped through the border and fled to Quetta, Pakistan.
Now my family are living as refugees in Quetta with no financial support for daily living costs let alone school. My little sister and three brothers need help and I’m asking friends to donate where they can. We have no idea how long they will be in Quetta, where hundreds of refugees are right now uncertain about the future. Right now, I’m making an appeal for money so I can support them and get them back into school. They’d stopped their education since the Taliban closed the school and their dream right now is to keep studying.
For those that wish to donate, I’m going to provide regular updates here so you can learn about their lives as refugees and know how your donation is helping them.
No donation is too small right now and will go far to my refugee family. Please help them.
Thanks so much for your support.
Organizer
Zohal Mera
Organizer
Lynchburg, VA