'Like many Americans and millions around the world, I was watching the [US withdrawal from] Afghanistan unfold in horror. I felt helpless. But I decided to do something about it,' Kathryn Chovanes writes.
FILE - Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 16, 2021. A year after America's tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines.mam was an interpreter for American forces in Afghanistan. After the U.S. withdrawal in August of 2021, he became a hunted man.
I worked with some like-minded individuals to create an organization called EVAC, with the goal of protecting, evacuating, and resettling Afghan allies who had been left behind. None of us are trained aid workers, nor do we have experience in foreign policy or government advocacy. But we couldn’t just sit back and do nothing.
EVAC’s mission is not political. Our goal is not to make a political statement. But when we talk to the Afghan allies that we’ve helped evacuate and resettle and the Afghan families still desperately trying to avoid detection by the Taliban and get to safety, it’s clear that our government and governments around the world have failed them.
But Afghan allies and democracy activists are still living in fear, being hunted by the Taliban, and desperately seeking a way out.with eight families who, for a variety of reasons, including errors by the U.S. government or their former employers, cannot get SIVs to enter the country.
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