Help Jamila and Her Five Daughters

Dear friends,

I hope you don’t find this intrusive and please do not feel any obligations. I am asking without any expectations as I always find it awkward to ask for money, even when it is for someone else, but two fabulous women in my neighbourhood (Mij and Sue) who have been supporting refugees for many years have asked me if I can help spread the word about supporting an Afghani woman called Jamila to come to Australia with her 5 daughters.

We need $30,000 to pay for the immigration and legal fees here in Australia.  That’s either 100 people donating $1,000 or 300 people donating $100, or anything in between. So far, a few of us have donated $1,000 but we need more people to get on board.

I hope you can help. I have included some information below. For me it is a small way I can contribute to fighting the Taliban and secure a better future of these six women.

 

Cheers, Janet Giles. 

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Here is the Circle of Friends Donation Form 

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Background

Sue Webb and Mij Tanith are reaching out widely to a number of individuals and community groups for much-needed support for a project they have undertaken.  It is a Community Sponsorship Program for an Afghani (Hazara) single mother with five young daughters. Her name is Jamila. The aim of the program is to bring Jamila and her girls to Australia. 

 

Jamila was a teacher in Kabul, and lost her job when the Taliban rose again to power. Her husband also lost his job, and began working as a lorry driver in the provinces. She has not heard from him for over 12 months. She assumes he has fallen victim to the Taliban. This is a pretty fair assumption, as Hazara people, an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, have been the subject of persecution and genocide for decades in their own country. And now, with the Taliban in power, Hazara men are being systematically taken away and killed. 

Life is not much better for those who survive. Afghanistan is in chaos. In one of the coldest winters the country has ever known, starvation and death are commonplace.

Jamila escaped from Kabul, and is now living in Iran - a case of “out of the frying pan, into the fire”. She has reached out though international Hazara networks to a refugee contact here in Adelaide. And that contact asked for our help.  So here we are.

 Mij and Sue have verified Jamila's story, and have taken on the task of working with a migration lawyer from The Australian Refugee Association. The financial cost is around $30,000. That doesn’t include air fares, should the application to bring Jane and her girls to Australia be successful.  

If you want to talk with them about anything then you can contact Mij Tanith on 0405 086 533 or mijtanith@gmail.com

Anyone wishing to donate financially - all donations are handled by Circle of Friends Australia, and are tax deductible. This organisation has no paid staff, and its only expenses are bank fees. Apart from these fees, every dollar donated reaches its target. A form is attached if you would like to donate.

The Circle number (115) and the destination (Jamila), are already filled in, so all anyone has to do is add their name, email the form to Bruce, and transfer their donation to the account mentioned.  Here is a Radio Adelaide interview at Radio about this project. https://radioadelaide.org.au/2018/04/08/refugees-detention-and-offering-support/

Mij and Sue

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