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Certificate of an Afghanin who fled to Pakistan in front of the Taliban

"We live in constant fear"

Because she campaigned for the rights of girls, Sarah Amiri* had to flee from Afghanistan when the Taliban took power two years ago. Since then, the former employee of a Terre of the Hommes project in Pakistan-in constant fear and uncertainty and with the previously unfulfilled hope of evacuation to Germany.

»As a former employee of a project supported by Terre des Hommes Germany, I had to flee with my mother and six sisters from the Taliban. We have been living in Pakistan in constant uncertainty and fear for over a year. In the past few months, thousands of Afghan refugees have been arrested and detained by the police in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and other cities. The goal is the deportation to Afghanistan and money pressing.  

We hide from the military, which is looking for Afghan without papers. We fear arrest and deportation. Financially we are bad, we are not allowed to work. My sisters cannot go to school, there is no medical care. My sister's intellectual disability, which requires regular medical care and daily medication. Hospitals do not treat Afghan refugees to get medication is difficult. We live in constant fear. We urgently ask for evacuation to escape our hopeless situation. "

* Name changed

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