Please donate to Ausghan Aid
Words are not adequate to express our sorrow for the people of Afghanistan, especially the Hazara, the women, the children. We need to stand up for those asylum seekers who believed in this country’s compassion but who have been cruelly kept behind razor wire for years in our detention centres or are now in hiding or limbo in or outside Afghanistan.
AusGhan Aid, a small charity set up by Najaf Mazari (The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif) and friends in Melbourne 10 years ago has been supporting an ambulance service and school resources to the poorest people in and around Mazar-e-Sharif. Since the takeover, it has quickly refocused and is sending support directly to Afghans who need to flee and get humanitarian visas. Tax deductible donations can be made at: ausghanaid.org.au
AusGhan Aid believes in helping people in need and helping people realise their potential and. Since it’s inception 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. AusGhan Aid has purchased and funded a modern ambulance which collects and returns needy people in the outlying villages in Balkh provence of Northern Afghanistan. In the past these trips took 12-14 hours by donkeys and horses. So far, the ambulance has collected and retuned over 2000 people especially pregnant women and children. In addition, AusGhan aid as provided educational supplies such backpacks, school books, pens and pencils to over 1100 primary school students in over 18 schools in the province.
Their founder, Najaf Mazari arrived in Australia in 2001 by boat from Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. He spent 4 months in Woomera Detention Centre before he moved to Melbourne and shortly after established his rug business on High St. With a desire to give back to his village and community, he established AusGhan Aid to support health and education services in Afghanistan. To know more about his story, read his best selling autobiography The Rug Maker of Mazar-e-Sharif.