Name: Sayed Hujatullah Azizi

Profile: A refugee from the Sadat tribe from Afghanistan, living in Indonesia.

Advantages: UN-certified, excellent skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia, video editor, chef, volunteer at Buddhist Foundation Tzu Chi (Indonesia), FULLY FUNDED.

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

Canadian contact: Stephen Watt

Needed: A group of five friends to support him.

After being captured by the Taliban, Sayed was badly tortured and beaten by them. He was lucky to be able to escape from their captive, and he made it to Indonesia to save his life in 2016.

Sayed is an education lover. Despite facing many restrictions, he completed his high school education in Jakarta and got a scholarship to study at a university. Also, he has helped many locals with his cooking skills and kindness. He has access to the required funds for his sponsorship, and his hope now is to find a group of Canadian friends who can bring him to Canada where he can pursue his education and contribute to society.

His Story

Sayed Hujatullah was born on April 22, 2000, in Jaghori district of the Ghazni province in Afghanistan. He was a student in 10^th grade at Dawood Zirak High School in his village.

People from his tribe have long been targets of persecution and massacres because of their culture, religion, and love for education. Sayed’s father was always complaining about his back pain. The doctor in his village suggested Sayed to take his father to Kabul for treatment. The next day, Sayed and his father were on the way to Kabul when the Taliban stopped their taxi in a place named Mushakee.

“The members of the Taliban were armed and their faces were covered with masks. I was very terrified.”

After searching them and checking their identity cards, they took Sayed and his father along with other passengers to their base on a Toyota car. Sayed was then separated from his father and was taken to a room with two other passengers where they were stripped from their clothes.

Accused

Some members of the Taliban took his father and three other passengers outside. Since Sayed could not understand Pashto, the two passengers were interpreting it for him. While interrogating, members of the Taliban asked Sayed and the other passengers if they had been cooperating with the government.

“We kept telling them that we had not worked with the government and we were just local people, living our ordinary life, but they did not believe us and kept asking.”

Members of the Taliban also told them that someone had reported to the Taliban about their taxi being full of passengers who had been working for the government. Despite declining their accusation, the Taliban did not believe Sayed and the two other passengers. They were being held captive in the ruined building where no local people were around. Sayed and the two other passengers knew that they would be killed sooner or later. So, they decided to escape from there. There was a guard outside who frequently checked them every hour. Since the two other passengers were elder than Sayed, they both decided to lock the guard inside the room. The next night when the guard entered the room, they both grabbed him, took his gun and tied his hands with his scarf. Then they got out of the building. After running for about half an hour, they found a grape garden and hid there the whole night. The next morning, they ran again and reached a road where they stopped a car.

“The car was heading to Kandahar, but after we asked the driver to help us reach Ghazni, he drove us to Ghazni.”

Leaving Home

Sayed stayed hidden in a hotel and met a friend of his uncle named Karbalai Ramazan. After Sayed shared everything with him, he contacted Sayed’s uncle and told him about the situation. Sayed’s uncle told Sayed that he was no longer safe in Afghanistan because the Taliban had his information and could find and kill him easily.

“During that time, I was very worried for my father. I don’t know what the Taliban did to him. Since then, we have not heard anything of him.”

After his uncle arranged for a people smuggler with the help of Karbalai Ramazan, Sayed flew from Kabul to New Delhi, India on May 03, 2016, and stayed there for 5 days. From there, he went to Malaysia and then on to Indonesia by plane on May 09, 2016.

Life in Indonesia

After arriving in Jakarta, he registered himself with the UNHCR on May 12, 2016. Since he was underage and did not have any place to stay, he slept on the side road in front of the UNHCR office for about a month to ask for protection. He was then provided shelter by an international humanitarian and nongovernmental organization by the name of Tzu Chi, and he started studying school at Cinta Kasih Tzu Chi High School in Jakarta Barat.

After finishing school and turning 18 years old in 2020, he left the shelter and fortunately got a scholarship to study the field of Information Systems at Tanri Abeng University. Since then, he has been busy studying there.

His Dreams

Despite being deprived of his basic human rights, Sayed has always tried his best to contribute to society. He volunteered from June 2020 until August 30, 2020 in a shelter for old people where he voluntarily took care of them. He also used to cook voluntarily while living in Tzu Chi shelter. His dream is to live with freedom of speech and far from discrimination, fear of being killed, injustice and persecution.

The Only Way!

There is a way for him to fulfill his dreams and continue helping the world.

Since Sayed 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. All he needs is to be sponsored by a group of five Canadian friends.

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 Sayed directly on Facebook – or through WhatsApp: +62 895-0868-1759.

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