Name: Usman Saeed and his family

Profile: Refugee from Pakistan, living in Malaysia

Advantages: UN-certified, Good English skills, High School educated,

Diploma in tailoring and beautician (His Wife)

Risk: At risk of being detained and killed if returned home.

Canadian contact: Stephen Watt

Usman and Ruby fell in love with each other. Despite being tortured by Ruby’s family, they escaped to another city in Pakistan and got married. Unfortunately, Ruby’s family found them and tortured both of them, therefore Ruby lost her child. Despite Ruby’s family forced them in every way to make them separated, they didn’t give up and flew to Malaysia in 2013.

They were attacked twice in Malaysia as well and still, they are living in danger.

These two loving couples and their children hope to find five Canadian friends who can sponsor them to Canada where they can live peacefully.

Their Love Story

Usman Saeed was born on May 4, 1990 in Gujranwala Pakistan.

In 2006, he fell in love with Ruby Naz, his newly shifted neighbor whose family was rich and had political power in Pakistan. They kept meeting hiddenly for 4 years. One day, Ruby’s brother saw them together, then he and his friends started beating Usman. When Usman went to his home and told his parents his love story, they flatly refused his feelings.

Escaped and Captured

About two years passed and Usman didn’t hear anything from Ruby, and one day she called him by her servant’s phone and told him that she had been locked in a room. Then they decided and escaped to Sohawa, a town in Punjab where they found a place for living with the help of Usman’s friend. They got married on October 18, 2012.

Two months later, Usman’s friend informed him that Ruby’s brother had found their location.

“I was so scared, we immediately escaped to Rawalpindi where we thought to be safe from them, but I was wrong.”

Again, they found their location and attacked them in their house. They beat Usman and his wife continuously, and someone hit him hard with a gun on his head that he fainted.

Tortured

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in an unknown place where Ruby’s brother tortured him and forced him to divorce Ruby.

“I didn’t give up because she was pregnant, and I was going to become a father.”

When there was no one, an old man helped Usman to escape from there and told him that his wife had been admitted to the hospital due to being badly beaten. He escaped to his friend’s home where his friend suggested him to flee to Malaysia Ruby.

“When I went to the hospital, my wife told me that we had lost our baby.”

Escaped to Malaysia

Then, with the support of his friend, they went to Lahore and stayed there until they got their passport and visa. On March 5, 2013 they flew to Malaysia and arrived there on March 6.

The First Attack in Malaysia

Usman thought that his hard days had gone, but it was not that simple. He was deceived by a person who promised to give him a work visa, and he ran away with his passport and money. Then they registered themselves at the UNHCR office in Malaysia.

2 years later, someone told Ruby’s family about them, and in 2015, while Usman and his wife were going for shopping, some guys from Pakistan, who had worn helmets, stopped them on the way and threw petrol on them.

“They threatened us by showing the fire, and told us to return to Pakistan otherwise they would kill us. I and my wife were trembling with fear.”

Fortunately, People approached there, and they ran away.

When Usman and his wife went to the police station to report what had happened, they were ignored by the police because they were refugees.

The Second Attack

2 months after the attack, when Usman was outside,4 unknown people came to his home, tortured his wife, and threatened her to return to Pakistan. When Usman returned to his home, his neighbors told home about the attack, and the police also came but they had already run away.

“I was hopeless that even we were not safe in Malaysia.”

Usman took his wife to the hospital, then submitted the medical and police report to the UNHCR office where they were suggested to move to any other city in Malaysia.

Their Life Now

Still, Usman and his wife can’t live in peace because they don’t believe that they are safe in Malaysia anymore. Also, he doesn’t have any job to support his family, and he doesn’t have proper documents to educate his two children in school.

“We are still in danger, and I can’t give my children a proper education which makes me worried for their future.”

An opportunity

Since Usman and his family are officially certified by the UNHCR, they are eligible for Canada’s private sponsorship program. They need a group of five Canadian friends to support them.

To help support Usman and his nice family as a sponsor, please contact Stephen Watt on Facebook.

You can also reach out to Usman directly on Facebook or by Email.

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

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