Greeting to all viewing this page, I hope you find it informative, interesting and enlightening as we tell our story, without media or political bias. We will try our best to tell the truth, so help us Allah (God).  We started this site hoping to balance the view that has been portrayed in the media, and in hope to bring out a picture of my family that has been buried for so long. In this site I will try to show the public our work with the poor, the unfortunate and the disadvantaged.

    In 1985, after spending two summers volunteering in refugee camps, my father resolved leave behind his life of privilege in Canada and move his family to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and try to help the country rebuild after its devastating invasion by the Soviet Union. This decision helped us grow with more than ourselves in mind. We learned to think of others before ourselves, we saw difficulties and hardship, and it helped us appreciate all that we had. It made us better people and it changed our lives forever.

    And so our life of giving and helping began, and what a great life it turned out to be. Overseas, people were suspicious of us and we were sometimes labeled as Western spies, and at home we find people are still suspicious of us and we are sometimes labeled as terrorists. But for all the fear and hatred, for all the rumors and lies spread about us, we remain what we have always been; a Canadian family proud to have used our contacts and resources to build a series of orphanages, schools and hospitals across war-torn Afghanistan.

    While living in Pakistan, we earned a few enemies after my father successfully took Arab leaders to court over Canadian donations that they tried to use for their own purposes.  When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, we earned a few enemies by continuing to build schools for girls and insisting they had a right to be educated. When the Americans invaded Afghanistan, we earned a few enemies by helping resolve disputes between warlords and militants peacefully instead of letting them kill each other. It takes courage to do the right thing, even when it is unpopular. Our father was killed, two of us have been shot in the back, four of us have been captured, two have been tortured. But still we stand.

    Our family has committed our lives to building a better Canada, a better Afghanistan, and a better world. And no amount of lies, threats or persecution will ever convince us to do otherwise.

Please bear with us as this site is under reconstruction this month after a series of events resulted in its data being lost, and needing to be rewritten. Our apologies for the trouble this may have caused you.