Dear friends and colleagues.

It has now been a year since that August.I want to thank you all for that month, and in the many months after – for doing as much as you could, to help as many people as you could.

On behalf of our Afghan friends, allies and colleagues – thank you for trying. Please think to help lobby for the passage of the Afghan Adjustment Act in the United States Congress.

https://www.congress.gov/…/117th…/senate-bill/4787/text

And to urge the Biden Administration to continue to facilitate and support the resettlement of allies and at-risk Afghans here in the United States.

https://welcome.us/

And lastly, I would l like to leave this from my friend David Fox (and another evacuee from Kabul that August, along with his family) – it is worth remembering the dignity and beauty of that country and people, as seen through his eyes.

We’re working on exciting things here at Digimancy, I know it has been a minute but I am very happy to share this company update from Co-Founder George Ziets about what has happened over the past year and where we Digimancers are headed in the future. Check it out here:

https://digimancygames.com/news/companyupdatejune2022

I am pleased to share that this past week our studio Co-Founder George Ziets participated in the following panel on narrative gameplay at #LudoNarraCon:

Trials of Narrative Gameplay Design – LudoNarraCon 2022

On behalf of us here at Digimancy Entertainment I would like to extend our thanks to the publisher and convention organizer Fellow Traveller for the invite!

… 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, edit and write our April newsletter. The bulk of my work went into interviewing “Adbul” – a former Afghan interpreter that helped organize and lead an evacuation flight out of Mazar-i-Sharif. You can check out our Aprils newsletter here:

http://mailchi.mp/96462586db2d/allied-airlift-21-news-update-april-2022

This is a highly personal volunteer effort for me, seeing how I am connected to many friends who are either trapped in Afghanistan or have loved ones that have been left behind in dangerous and dark circumstances.

Unfortunately, even as a volunteer, there is only so much I can do. We are limited to assisting Afghans well along with SIV process right now and have no ability to influence that process.

But I remain committed to helping my friends, however long it takes.
I would like to thank Tracie Lattimore and Allied Airlift 21 Case Manager Carrie Brown for nominating me as a volunteer.

If any of my friends and colleagues would like to help out with this effort, feel free to get in touch with me.