An international fundraising call is being made by US peace activist Kathy Kelly and colleagues in ‘Afghan Generations’.
Over the past two years, 25 former Afghan Peace Volunteers, who had fled Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, have been resettled in Portugal (PN 2666).
This call is to raise £119,000 to welcome another 17 young Afghans to Portugal later this year, once their visas have been granted, and also to sustain the current safe house in Pakistan until they are…
On the 28th of March, 2014, at about 4 p.m., the Afghan Peace Volunteers heard a loud explosion nearby. For the rest of the evening and night, they anxiously waited for the sound of rocket fire and firing to stop. It was reported that a 10 year old girl, and the four assailants, were killed.
Four days later, they circulated a video, poem and photos prefaced by this note: “We had been thinking about an appropriate response to the violence perpetrated by the Taliban, other militia…
