humanitarian parole assistance to refugees. to afghans that are still left behind because the danger for them is increasing each day. what has been the reaction from the vietnamese american community and not vietnamese community as well? it has been overwhelmingly positive. it is definitely one of those things where we re getting support from all sorts of ethnic groups, all type of folks, whether they are refugees or not refugees so in many ways we have been very successful in mobilising and engaging folks and this particular topic and keeping this top of mind because, again, there are many people and many allies that are still left in afghanistan and their lives are being endangered every single day and so we want to keep the focus on this important topic.
of the group of boat people and 31 of us fled the country in the small boats. ten people passed away and three of those folks were in my family, including my mum and my two younger siblings. can you comment what the initiative does for those refugees? we started the initiative wanting to provide temporary housing for afghans that are resettling in washington state and we chose to help at least 75 families because we wanted to pay tribute for the year that vietnam fell and we became refugees ourselves, and so we started recruiting our community to do that and by now we have had over 100 families signing up to help and become host families and that we also started a project to provide
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take a look at the terrain here. this is a mountainous region. it s exposed, the ground is rough, and crossing iran to reach the turkish border here can take a month or more. the journey is full of risk, but some afghans still feel this is their best hope. like this group, who we found on turkish soil. among them, men who stood against the taliban, including a police commander from kabul. we are concealing his identity. he s proud of his time in uniform. since the taliban took over, he says they have killed some of his brothers in arms, despite promising an amnesty.
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