Name: Ali Daryab Hussaini

Profile: Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, living in Makassar, Indonesia.

Advantages: UN-certified, good English skills, achieved an operator training certificate for heavy equipment.

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

Canadian contact: Stephen Watt

While bringing books for their school in the village, Ali Daryab and his father were captured and tortured by the Taliban. They both succeeded to escape and Ali Daryab fled to Indonesia by boat in 2014.

He spent more than a year inside a detention centre where he was treated like a prisoner but he kept learning the English language, and after receiving his freedom from there, he achieved an operator training certificate for heavy equipment. Now, he hopes to find a group of friends who can bring him to Canada where he can get proper education and learn new skills.

His Story

Ali Daryab was born on September 9, 1998 in a village of the Jaghori district in Ghazni province in Afghanistan.

The Hazara people of the region have long been targets of persecution and massacres because of their culture, religion, and love for education.

Ali Daryab’s father was a book distributor to a school in his village, and in winter, he used to work as a taxi driver. In May 2014, he and his father both went to Ghazni for bringing some books for the school. After receiving books from the Ministry of Higher Education of Ghazni, they headed back to Jaghori.

The Dangerous Place

On the way, there is a dangerous place, Dasht-e-Qarabagh where many Hazaras were persecuted and killed by the Taliban. When they reached Dasht-e-Qarabagh, some members of the Taliban stopped them and found books and documents in their car.

“I and my father were very afraid and knew that they would kill us soon.”

They took Ali Daryab and his father to a house where they tortured them and accused them of working for the government.

In the evening, they were lucky enough to escape from that house and get to the main road.

Leaving Home

“My father told me to go to Kabul and not come back till everything gets normal. He made his way to Pakistan.”

After arriving in Kabul, Ali Daryab contacted his mother and she told him not to return because the Taliban had been asking for both of them from taxi drivers. There he decided to leave his country.

The Way to Indonesia

He arranged for a people smuggler, and he flew to New Dehli, India where he stayed for 30 days, then he flew to Malaysia and stayed there for 6 days. From there, he went to Indonesia by boat and arrived in Jakarta on July 1, 2014 and stayed in Bogor for 7 days. On July 8, 2014, he registered himself at the UNHCR office.

Living Like a Prisoner

With no right to work or way to support himself, Ali Daryab went to Pekanbaru Immigration Centre and waited there for 4 and a half months then on December 5, 2014 he was transferred to Surabaya Detention Centre where he and other refugees were treated like prisoners.

” Those days were so difficult for me being deprived of education, proper food and health care.”

Despite living like a prisoner, Ali Daryab started learning the English language inside the detention centre.

On February 28, 2016 he was transferred to another shelter, and on November 7, he was shifted to a community house.

His Dreams

Like other refugees, he also dreams of experiencing freedom and safety. He achieved an operator training certificate for heavy equipment in 2019.

As a UNHCR refugee, Ali Daryab is eligible for Canada’s private sponsorship program. He needs a group of five Canadian friends to support him.

” I hope there will be kind people who will help me because I believe that we all are connected somehow in this world.”

To help support Ali Daryab as a sponsor, please contact Stephen Watt on Facebook.

You can also reach out to Ali Daryab directly on Facebook.

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