![]() She specializes in public health policy and mental health advocacy within immigrant and refugee populations. She is also the co-author with James Ingalls of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (Seven Stories 2006).Īzadeh Azi Ghafari, volunteer Co-DirectorĪzadeh Azi Ghafari is a licensed mental health practitioner who works as a hospital administrator in Southern California. Sonali is also a spokesperson for the Afghan Women’s Mission and speaks widely on college campuses, community forums, and conferences. Sonali is an award-winning broadcast and print journalist and the host and executive producer of a nationally syndicated radio and television program called Rising Up With Sonali. She is also a Senior Correspondent of the Economy for All project at the Independent Media Institute and the Racial Justice editor at Yes! Magazine. Awareness: conduct campaigns to increase public awareness on women’s and human rights and related issues in Afghanistan and Afghan refugee camps.Education and Empowerment: support schools and other programs for Afghan refugees to alleviate emotional suffering and decrease illiteracy and joblessness and to empower Afghan women to build sustainable livelihoods.Health Care: establish and operate free health centers serving primarily Afghan women and children.In 2005, Malalai Hospital was transitioned into Malalai Clinic in Khewa refugee camp.īroadly speaking, the objectives of the Afghan Women’s mission fall into three categories: ![]() This flagship project was effectively started in late 2001. Our first undertaking was the re-opening of the Malalai Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The Afghan Women’s Mission was founded in response to the compelling need for adequate hospital facilities near Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. We are an all-volunteer organization based in the United States and are a project of the non-profit organization SEE. Projects have included many programs run by Afghan women including Malalai Clinic, schools, orphanages, agricultural programs, demonstrations and functions in support of women’s and human rights. If you’d like to donate to the GoFundMe, you can do so here.The Afghan Women’s Mission started operations in January 2000 and is run by a small group of concerned Americans in support of the humanitarian and political work of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. We’re working with multiple groups to make sure those folks are vetted and sponsored.” “The amount of impact this is going to have and lives it will save is so mesmerising that no words I can put into this tweet will do it justice,” Marcus wrote on Twitter, adding: “We are making sure everyone we know is accounted for and have proper names, identifications, and access to the airport. The original $550,000 target was needed to fuel two airplanes to fly in and out of Kabul to another country – if the new target of over $4 million is reached, enough money will be available for 16 trips with a capacity of over 300 to fly people to safety. He adds that the Talbin has a “kill list” and are reportedly going door to door “searching for these people” and “killing them on site”. ![]() “The individuals in question are high-value targets – Afghan men and women who have worked as human rights lawyers, champions of women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, journalists, government liaisons, artists, and interpreters – all of whom are at imminent risk of being executed by the Taliban, along with their families. “I have been working alongside humanitarian aid groups, decorated military veterans, and activists on the ground in Kabul, fighting to save people who otherwise have no chance at survival in the Taliban-occupied Kabul.” “We are coming to you in desperation to conduct an emergency flight rescue of 300+ Afghan souls,” Marcus says on the page. In the 15 hours or so since, he’s had to raise the goal several more times, and at the time of writing the campaign has reached an incredible $4,033,430 million of its $4,400,000 million target. In just the first 38 minutes of launching his Flyaway: Emergency Afghan Rescue Mission GoFundMe page, 11,000 people had donated $550,000, prompting Marcus to up the goal amount to $1.1 million. ![]() Tommy Marcus, AKA typically posts anti-capitalist and anti-billionaire content, and has launched several successful fundraising campaigns this year – he collected over $1 million for Planned Parenthood, an non-profit organisation that provides reproductive healthcare in the US – but none have reached the heights of his most recent effort. A meme artist has raised over $4 million (£2.9m) in just one day to help rescue Afghans on the Taliban’s kill list. ![]()
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