Origins Podcast: A Call For Support To Save A Family
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss
4.4 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING NOW TO SAVE THIS FAMILY!
There are many tragedies in Afghanistan, and thousands of people who need help. We cannot right all the wrongs, but we can save these 8 people. We can save a woman who fought for human rights and now faces execution in Afghanistan if she were to return. We can save 5 young girls who have no access to education, or freedom if they were to return to Afghanistan. Already, during the past 2 years in Afghanistan, they have learned much English, and one of the young girls has been selected for a prestigious online scholarship to study at an English speaking Afghan University now run outside of that country. We can do something concrete and positive to help them.
It isn’t everything, but it is something. I can tell you from my last experience of saving the life of a young girl from Afghanistan so she could study in the United States and eventually pursue and advanced degree that not a day goes by when I don’t think about how that feels to me like one of the most important things I have done.
I hope you will consider donating, and if you cannot, that you will pass this podcast along to others who may be interested.
DONATIONS:
The JIAS has kindly created two different direct PayPal donation links.
* The first is specifically linked to the family, and if for some horrible reason the family were not able to arrive in Canada under this program, all funds would be returned to donors. Because the funding relates to this family uniquely, any donations made to this site are not tax deductible for Canadian residents. This is the preferred site for all those who are not concerned about receiving a Canadian tax receipt for their donations.
Here is the direct link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=VBKBGBFZ5G5FE
* The second is a link to a fund which will provide for the family if they arrive, but if for some reason they cannot arrive, the funds will not be returned but will be allocated to others on the sponsor’s waiting list. Donations to this fund are however tax deductible for Canadian residents, and donors will receive a tax receipt.
Here is the link: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=H49YGR3E5QMBY
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to the origins podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm your host Lawrence Krause. |
| 0:13.4 | This is a special edition of the podcast because I'm reaching out to you at an important time to ask for your help. |
| 0:20.1 | For your help to save an Afghan family, |
| 0:23.0 | the lives of eight people, the mother who was a human rights lawyer in Afghanistan who helped |
| 0:29.6 | abused women, the father who worked for a French NGO, the son who was studying computer |
| 0:34.9 | science, and five young girls who were hoping to have a future |
| 0:38.1 | in which they could be educated and have full lives. |
| 0:42.9 | That family suffered tremendously. |
| 0:46.5 | They were hoping to leave under a French airplane flight when Kabul Airport was bombed, |
| 0:52.0 | and they reached out to my colleague Claire Balinski, a journalist, an American journalist living in Paris. |
| 0:58.1 | And she took up their case. |
| 1:00.2 | And their lives were in danger. |
| 1:03.8 | Because after the Taliban took over and after Kabul fell, not only were the people who she'd put in jail released from jail, but the Taliban |
| 1:13.3 | actually went through the offices of the Afghan Bar Association, getting the names of various |
| 1:17.7 | lawyers and hunting house-to-house looking for them. And the family had to hide in various |
| 1:22.3 | locations in order to survive, not just for the safety and life of the mother and father, but the young |
| 1:28.8 | girls, of course, were in danger of being married off to Taliban fighters at a young age. |
| 1:34.3 | It was a harrowing experience clearly for them, and happily, with primarily Claire's help and |
| 1:41.0 | her readers who provided some funds to support them, they managed to escape to Pakistan |
| 1:46.8 | where they've been for almost the last two years. And following that, Claire reached out to me |
| 1:52.8 | because there's a program, a Canadian program, that allows agencies to sponsor refugees |
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