Name: Abdul Aziz

Profile: Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, living in Indonesia.

Advantages: UN-certified, good English skills, experienced bricklayer, tiler and plasterer, drawer, FULLY FUNDED.

Risk: At risk of being tortured and killed by the Taliban if returned home.

Canadian contact: Stephen Watt

Abdul Aziz was arrested by the Taliban and was about to be killed due to working for a school. He luckily got a chance and fled to Indonesia by boat in 2014.

Since then, he has been living without having access to his basic human rights. He has access to the required funds for his sponsorship to Canada. All he needs is a group of 5 Canadian citizens who can bring him to Canada.

Early Life

Abdul Aziz was born in 1992 in Loman village of the Jaghori district in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan. At the age of 14, he was shepherding there. Later on, he migrated to Iran where he worked for 5 years. Due to not having legal documents to stay there, he was deported to Afghanistan by Iranian police in 2012.

Taken and Beaten

In Afghanistan, he started working as a school caretaker. The Hazara people of the region have long been targets of persecution and massacres because of their culture, religion, and love for education. One day in October 2014, he and the head of the school went to the Ministry of Education in Ghazni to bring books for the school. While returning, they were intercepted by 4 members of the Taliban.

After getting them out of the car, two members of the Taliban started searching the car and the two of them were taking Abdul Aziz and the school head by the side of a river.

“On the way, they were beating and abusing us.”

When a member of the Taliban went to defecate, the school head started pleading with the other member of the Taliban who was there. Finding them busy, Abdul Aziz ran toward the other side of the river and hid behind a big stone there. He then heard gunshots.

“Once again, I heard gunshots, but this time it was from another site. I also heard the Taliban talking in Pashto.”

Abdul Aziz stayed there until the police arrived there. He then told the police what had happened. While checking the area, police found the head teacher’s dead body, and their car was burning there.

Leaving Home

Abdul Aziz returned home and shared everything with his parents who became worried. Since he was well known to the Taliban, they could easily find and kill him from any corner of Afghanistan. His mother persuaded him to leave the country and seek a safe place.

He then arranged for a people smuggler, and on November 21, 2014, he flew from Kabul to New Delhi, India. From there he went to Malaysia by plane on November 27, and then on to Pakenbaru, Indonesia by boat on November 27, 2014.

Life in Indonesia

After arriving in Medan, he went to Belawan Immigration Centre on December 01, 2014, to ask for assistance. On January 09, 2014, he was transferred to an overcrowded detention centre.

“We were kept there behind locked doors with limited access to proper food and health care.”

He got registered with the UNHCR inside the detention centre. After spending more than two years there, he was freed and transferred to a community house in Medan in April 2017.

Since then, he has been learning the English language, drawing and improving his computer skills. Also, he has been doing exercises to keep himself healthy.

Last Word

As a refugee, Abdul Aziz cannot get proper education, work, drive and travel to another city. Afghanistan is never safe to go back to either, especially for the Hazara minority.

UNHCR is always saying that there is almost no chance for a single refugee to be resettled from Indonesia, but Abdul Aziz is hoping to get help from a group of Canadian friends to start a new life with freedom, peace and all basic human rights where he can support the rest of his family members.

Since Abdul Aziz is officially certified as a refugee by the UNHCR – unlike the vast majority of the world’s refugees – he qualifies for Canada’s private sponsorship program. Another good thing about him is that he is FULLY FUNDED.

If you would like to sponsor him – or if you’re just interested in helping to bring him here – please contact his friend Stephen Watt on Facebook.

You can reach out to Abdul Aziz directly on Facebook – or by email: azizh2729@gmail.com – or through WhatsApp: +62 896-1276-8941.

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