Watching the images of fighting on the news, I gasped in horror. It was August 15, 2021, and as Kabul, Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban, it shocked the world. It meant hundreds of children I was responsible for were in danger.
‘We have to get the children out,’ I told my son Sourosh, then 25.
‘We have to get the children out’
I’d left my home country of Afghanistan after the Soviet troops invaded. And aged 18, I arrived in Australia.
Sadly, in July 1992, my six-year-old son died, swept
