… And I condemn them for their abandonment of Afghanistan. The same day the First Lady of the United States visited Ukraine to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people, I received the following message from a young woman in Kabul following the Taliban edict that all women must now wear the burqa again.

Dear Friends & Colleagues. I am proud to share that I have been volunteering with Allied Airlift 21, an organization that operates the Afghan Ally Registry – a secure list of individuals and families under threat who are seeking evacuation from Afghanistan. I am mostly assisting with the production of a newsletter. I helped produce, […]

This man, an Afghan Refugee, on Nowruz – sang for Ukrainians fleeing violence and destruction in their own lives. He himself – having had to flee the end of his own former life recently. I found it moving.