Name: Ghani Mohsini

Profile: Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, living in Indonesia.

Advantages: UN-certified, good English skills, has experience working at a mechanic workshop.

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

Canadian contact: Stephen Watt

After Ghani and his friend were captured by the Taliban, they were beaten and tortured. Ghani’s friend sacrificed his life while helping him to escape from there. Luckily, Ghani made it to Indonesia in 2014.

While living in the state of limbo, he has been exercising and improving his English skills. His hope now is to find a group of five Canadian friends who can bring him to Canada where he can live his life with freedom.

Early Life

Ghani Mohsini was born on January 01, 1999, in 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. Ghani’s father had a bookstore in the village. He was only 6 years old when in 2005, his father was killed on the way from Jaghori to Kabul. His mother then started working so that Ghani and his siblings could go to school.

In January 2014, Ghani wanted to join Military School in Kabul, but he was rejected because he was told to give a bribe for getting enrolled in the school.

“My dream was broken into pieces and I could not continue my education.”

The Incident

In February 2014, Ghani participated in campaign work for Dr, Abdullah Abdullah (Afghan Presidential Election Candidate). He and one of his friends had to take posters to a Pashtun area that was far away. On the way, they both were stopped by the Taliban. After the posters were found out by the Taliban, Ghani and his friend were taken to a garden where they both were beaten and tortured during the Taliban’s investigation.

“We knew that we would be killed by the Taliban, so we decided to escape from there.”

The next day, Ghani’s friend told him to go to the toilet. He asked a member of the Taliban and went to the toilet. After a while, his friend, who was locked there, started arguing and making noise to distract members of the Taliban. When Ghani came out of the toilet, he saw no one was there because members of the Taliban went to calm his friend.

“I then hid under a car and then started running through the garden.”

The Way to Indonesia

Ghani kept running until he reached a highway. From there, he went to his home with the help of a car driver. After he shared everything with his mother, she got very worried and told Ghani to leave Afghanistan to save his life as soon as possible. He was sent to Kabul by his mother where he hid at his relative’s home. Later on, his maternal uncle arranged for a people smuggler to send Ghani to a safe country. In October 2014, he flew from Kabul to New Delhi, India. From there, he went to Malaysia by plane and then on to Pekanbaru, Indonesia by boat on October 10, 2014.

Life in Indonesia

With no right to work or way to support himself in the new country, he went to Pekanbaru Immigration Centre to ask for assistance. On December 02, 2014, he was registered with the UNHCR there, and in October 2015, he was transferred to a detention centre in Pekanbaru. After about three months, he was freed in January 2016 and was transferred to a shelter that was for refugees under the age of 18. The shelter was in Makassar city.

On April 17, 2017, Ghani was transferred to a community house in Makassar. Since then, he has been living there and keeping himself busy exercising and improving his English skills.

His Dream

Ghani is an education lover, but as a refugee, he cannot get proper education, work, drive and travel to another city. His dream is to resettle in a safe country where he can live with freedom, get proper education and contribute to society.

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

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

You can also reach out to Ghazni directly on Facebook – or through WhatsApp: +62 882-0206-06497.

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