When Farhad Wajdi left Afghanistan for the US, he assumed he could help his parents get out too. But then everything changed.
Just a year ago, Farhad Wajdi was in Kabul with his parents and siblings, running a nonprofit that set up local women with street food carts.
Wajdi lives in Virginia, where he moved last year to seek asylum after ISIS militants threatened his life, he said. He made it to America ahead of his parents and siblings, and he planned for them to join him eventually — but none of them had realized how little time they had left before the government collapsed. Since the Taliban, Wajdi’s family has been in hiding, and he has contacted everyone he knows to try and get them evacuated.
Last year, after Afghanistan went into lockdown because of COVID-19 and street food vendors could no longer operate, carts were“Seeing that my mom had empowered herself, it helped make my vision clearer, that I have to help more women to be like my mom,” Wajdi said.“With the fame, there came a danger to us,” he said. “One guy called me from a private number and said you’re promoting western ideology in Afghanistan.
The family decided that Wajdi would travel to Virginia to seek asylum, since he already held a tourist visa to the US and had an uncle who lived there. His parents, who did not hold US visas, could not go with him.
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