Our current Sponsorship, blogs on Afghan’s Hazara Community, tips on getting involved.
We are a small team of community activists in the Quinte region who are hoping to find similar minded individuals who would like to help us bring Afghan refugees to safety here in our region. Our sister community organizations are Quinte Rainbow Refuge and All-Together Affordable Housing Corporation. our current community sponsor
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Rafi’s Story
My name is Mohammad Rafi Mahmoudi, a Hazara ethnic from the Turkman valley, Parwan province, Afghanistan. I am 23 years old, and the second child in my family of 7 with 5 other siblings. Currently, I am a third-year student at the Pelita Harapan University, Indonesia, majoring in Hospitality Management. Life in Afghanistan I was…
Abdul – A Profile in Courage, Perseverance and Adaptability
“I hope that one day I will be able to live like a free human in a peaceful place. I will be free from persecution and religious and ethnic discriminations.” It’s probably fair to say that, for the average Canadian, it is difficult to imagine how a young boy of 13 could manage the journey…
Hazara Community – Persecution and Perseverance
For over a century, the Hazara community has suffered from targeted discrimination, persecution, and massacres because of their ethnicity and Shi’ite faith in a predominantly Sunni-Muslim country. In the 1890s, 60 per cent of the Hazara population was killed, and those who survived were dispossessed of their land, displaced from their homes and sold as…
Indonesia – an unsafe haven
Indonesia never signed the UN refugee convention and continues to refuse to do so. Refugees cannot work, seek formal education and are restricted in their movement within the country and cities. They are effectively turned into illegal immigrants, kept under surveillance and ostracized by the rest of society. Even if the asylum seekers are recognized…
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