Name: Jamshed and his mother Gulsoom.

Profile: Hazara refugees from Pakistan, living in Indonesia.

Advantages: UN-certified, good English skills, Jamshed is a religious poems reciter and he is a high school graduate, FULLY FUNDED.

Risk: At risk of being killed by extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi if returned home.

Canadian contact: Stephen Watt

Jamshed, a Hazara refugee from Pakistan, faced threats from the extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi due to his religious poems. In 2018, he fled to Indonesia with his mother, Gulsoom to save their life. Certified by the UNHCR, they live in a state of limbo in Cisarua, Bogor. Despite restrictions, Jamshed remains resilient, dreaming of a peaceful life.

They need a group of five Canadian friends who can bring them to Canada where they can live with freedom.

His Story

Jamshed was born in March 1988, in Quetta, Pakistan. He completed his high school education at Yazdan Khan High School.

The Hazara people in Pakistan have been targets of persecution and massacres due to their religious and political beliefs.

Jamshed was a great Manqabat Khuwan (a person who recites poems praising and glorifying Islamic religious figures.) in Pakistan. By the year 2013, the number of target killings and bomb attacks on the Hazara innocents increased. On February 16, 2013, a massive bomb was planted inside a water tanker which took more than 100 lives and wounded more than 200. Many Hazara leaders were being targeted by the anti-Shia extremist group called Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. As a Manqabat reciter, Jamshed received multiple threatening letters.

“Finding threatening letters inside my house made me sense the danger that I could be killed there at any time.”

The Journey to Indonesia 

Jamshed and his mother then decided to leave Pakistan and seek a safe place. With the help of his friends, he arranged money for his and his mother’s travel to safety. After arranging the travel documents with the help of a travel agency in Quetta, he and his mother flew to Bangkok, Thailand in June 2018. From there, they had another flight to Jakarta, Indonesia.

Life in Limbo

After arriving in Jakarta, Jamshed and his mother registered themselves with the UNHCR on June 09, 2018, and they both moved to Cisarua, Bogor. Since then, they have been living there.

As a refugee, Jamshed cannot get a proper education, work, drive and travel to another city. Despite facing such restrictions, he has been keeping himself busy doing workouts at the gym and playing cricket. He says:

“I do these two activities to keep my mind diverted from negative thoughts. My dream is to resettle in a land of freedom with my mother where we can live peacefully.”

There is a Way

There is a way for Jamshed and his mother to fulfill their dreams and have access to their basic human rights. Since they are officially certified as refugees by the UNHCR – unlike the vast majority of the world’s refugees – they qualify for Canada’s private sponsorship program. Another good thing about them is that they are FULLY FUNDED.

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

You can reach out to Jamshed directly on Facebook – or through WhatsApp: +62 838-3394-0219.

Reach out and discover how wonderful it is to privately sponsor a good family to start a new life – with your help – in Canada!

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