An Afghan translator and his wife and six-year-old son have been giving a lifeline, after a British woman offered up her Aberdeen flat rent-free in an extraordinary act of generosity
everyone is ok and now we are in safety. 0ur bbc reports about burhan resonated. 75 years ago, another british army interpreter was given refuge from germany. helga macfarlane s mother, helena. i saw the report of the afghan refugees coming in from kabul on the army plane, and the story of the vesal family, and my mother had been a refugee during the second world war, and fled from her home. she only survived through the kindness of people along the way, and ijust felt i had do something and give back something for the kindness and the humanity that helped my mother and her family survive. after 100 days in a hotel room together, the night before their move sepehr and his family, so far from their life in afghanistan, are finally about to start a new one. sepehr, how do you feel about going to aberdeen?