Our Dari and Pashto teams, led by our amazing Afghan languages team lead Uma Mirkhail, have been working in partnership with HIAS to make their Mental Health curriculum for group facilitators linguistically-accessible to Afghan facilitators.

This is Leila Ehsan, Respond’s Iranian Languages Lead. I am reaching out with an urgent update from some of our Pashto and Dari translators based in Kabul and with ways we can support them.

HIAS has been around since 1881 as a refugee-serving organization. We protect the most vulnerable refugees, helping them build new lives and reuniting them with their families in safety and freedom. We advocate for the protection of refugees and assure that displaced people are treated with the dignity they deserve….