Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Resource List: Speakers
Resource List: Speakers
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Resource List
Speakers:
● Safi Rauf, Founder of Humans First: Provides protection for those left behind in
Afghanistan. HumansFirst.org
● Roya Massoumi, Co-director for the Berkeley Law Afghanistan Project: Provides pro
bono legal support to individuals at risk of persecution in Afghanistan and focuses on
building mechanisms to place accountability for human rights law on national and
international actors. Berkeley Law Afghanistan Project
● Sima Alizadeh, Attorney for Pars Equality Center-Afghan Coalition Legal Clinic:
Provides legal immigration advice and assistance to Afghans seeking visa and
resettlement in the US. Pars Equality Center
● Alain Mentha, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Welcome Home Jersey City: A
community-based nonprofit organization that provides educational, employment and
material support for refugees, asylees and asylum-seekers in the Jersey City area.
Welcome Home Jersey City
Humanitarian Relief Inside Afghanistan
● Afghan Learning Academy: Providing food, water, shelter, blankets, tents, and other first
aid essentials to the newly displaced Afghan families. Afghan Academy | United States |
Afghan Academy
● Homaira Rahman Foundation: HRF is providing emergency relief packages for displaced
families in Afghanistan and has partnered with Children of War. Homaira Rahman
Foundation
● Ketab Relief Organization: Ketab Relief will be providing food packages, temporary
housing, and financial assistance to families that have fled from the fighting to Kabul. :
Emergency Relief for Afghanistan
● Read To Lead Afghanistan: Providing tents, food, water, personal hygiene products, and
clothing to meet the basic needs of displaced Afghan families. Create. Provide. Educate
| Read To Lead Afghanistan Organization
● Watan Project & Children Without Borders: Assist Afghan displaced families and families
of those putting their lives at risk by fighting for Afghanistan. Urgent Crisis Relief for
Afghanistan 2021, organized by Children Without Borders Children Without Borders:
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● Jewish Family & Community Services (Urgent Afghan Evacuation): Plans on resettling
60+ refugees in East Bay by end of August. Urgent Afghan Evacuation | JFCS East Bay
● Afghan American Women’s Association: AAWA helps to preserve the Afghan culture
and offers resources to the Afghan community. Afghan-American Women's Association
● Enabled Children Initiative: Gathering funds to secure emergency relief for families in
makeshift IDP (internally displaced people) camps located in the outskirts of Kabul and
to continue to support orphaned and abandoned children who live with a disability. Keela
● Educate A Child For Change Organization: Providing sanitary products for displaced and
most unfortunate Afghan women and their children. Sanitary Products for the Displaced
Afghan Women, organized by ECCO Educate a Child for Change Organization
● Miles4Migrants: Donate your airline or mileage points to help Afghan children and their
families reach safety. Miles4Migrants - Home - Miles4Migrants
● Muslim Aid USA: Providing tents to the families who currently are stranded with no place
to stay and food for those families who have left their homes. The food items will include
flour, rice, sugar and lentils. Hygiene kits will also be provided to reduce the outbreak of
disease. MUSA - Afghanistan.
● International Institute of Los Angeles - IILA - International Institute of Los Angeles - IILA
International Institute of Los Angeles
Additional Contacts
● UNHCR - afgka@unhcr.org