Help bring Scouts to the US for schooling.
*All names have been changed to protect student safety.
ASRF has developed a program whereby we can continue those historic efforts even though Scouting has ended in Afghanistan. We are able to safely move and chaperone students from Afghanistan, through Pakistan while they await their F-1 (student visa) interview at the US Embassy (staying with families in Pakistan). To be frank, not all prospective students will succeed in securing F-1 visas to the US, but some will. Help us move them, house and feed them and pay the US fees to give them a shot at an F-1 visa. You can donate here to that cause. Thank you.
For over a decade, Afghan Scouts came to the US for high school and college.
Below are just a few of the dozens of students we're hoping to get to the US for schooling. We will deploy 100% of your donation to where it's needed most (F-1 fees at US embassy, airfare, food/lodging in Islamabad, evacuation from AFG, etc...).
The situation is becoming critical for many of our girls and young women Scouts inside Afghanistan, for varying reasons. We have made the decision to move as many of them as we can afford to do so, to our Scout leader run homes in Pakistan where they will be safe, sheltered, fed, and can work with our English teacher in residence. We have over 30 Scouts with A team grades/English/Scout accomplishments (triaged from over 200) we need to move, but can only move as many as can be supported.
Over the coming months we will work to find them schools (please contact us if you can help or have ideas), work with them on their F1 attempt and, if successful, fly them over here. But we need your help to get as many out as we can. Currently we have three large homes we're renting outside Islamabad and will likely need to rent a couple more. Please help us get them out, as time is running out for many of them. Thank you.
Afghan Scouts
Click on the download button under each student to read their story.
ASRF is a 501(c)(3) tax deductible organization. Please consider donating to help give these bright, dedicated and driven girls and young women a future of their own choosing.
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Nargess
Nargess is a high school graduate with a 99.25% accumulative grade and was one of the best students at her school. She is originally from Bamiyan, a central province of Afghanistan.
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Nargis
Starting with my name, Nargis, born in the year 2000 in a province not far from the capital of Afghanistan, Wardak, a year later, my family and I moved to Kabul as Afghanistan was free from the Taliban.
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Khatera
Every day I fight for my dreams and goals, and the effort is never in vain. My name is Khatera Hooram, a girl who left her homeland with many hopes and dreams to achieve my goals. I had to leave my country for my safety and to save myself from forced marriage.
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Fatima
You have the power to create the life of your dreams and to make the world a better place. My name is Fatima Rajaye, 17 years old Afghan girl from the Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
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Adib
Adib was born on September 03, 2003, in the Samangan province of Afghanistan. He was in second grade when he lost his father. His family could not support him to continue school so they enrolled him in the governmental orphanage of the Samangan province.
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Kaftitosh
Kaftitosh is a student in 11 grade at Mashal Bayat high school in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is considered to be a talented student by his school, with a 89.7% cumulative grade in his 10th grade year.
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Tabasum
Our destiny is the result of our beliefs. I believe that I can and will succeed. I am Tabasum Hooram and I am a 16 years old high school student from Takhar, Afghanistan. My favorite subject in school is mathematics, and I would love to become a neurosurgeon.