This short article is portion of a WHD News Electronic collection inspecting the effects of the U.S. navy withdrawal from Afghanistan one yr in the past this week.

In August 2021, the earth watched with dismay as the United States, after a practically 20-12 months occupation of Afghanistan, chaotically withdrew its forces and enabled the Taliban to promptly reclaim command of the war-torn nation.

A single 12 months afterwards, many Afghans who – irrespective of the odds – fled their homeland have realized to adapt to a new life in the United States.

U.S soldiers stand guard alongside a perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021.  (WHD Photo/Shekib Rahmani)

One of people refugees is Hamid Wahedy, 36, who worked with U.S. troops for 6 yrs as an IT specialist, offering world-wide-web company. 

With a wife and two youngsters – and another on the way – he is now dwelling and operating in New Hampshire in a small local community of 100 to 120 fellow Afghans. 

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"I’m experience delighted that I’m listed here. My household is capable to wander everywhere you go in peace devoid of any troubles. My kids are capable to go to school, and they will analyze very well," Wahedy stated. 

As much as he would like to go back, Wahedy is aware that he would not be harmless and concerns about the foreseeable future of his place. 

"The long run of Afghanistan is not excellent. The dim decades are coming. I’m not hopeful. (The Taliban) are not the kinds who are running Afghanistan peacefully," Wahedy reported. 

One more Afghan, Helal Massomi, was evacuated to the U.S. immediately after Kabul fell to the Taliban – a memory she described as "the worst expertise" of her lifetime. For the reason that of her activism and significant profile in Afghanistan, she understood that place her at chance. 

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Massomi sooner or later settled in Washington, D.C., following obtaining a humanitarian parole visa, which is utilised on a scenario-by-case foundation for "urgent humanitarian or sizeable public benefit." She used for asylum and a do the job permit – a method that took practically 9 months to get sorted.  

"No one particular was willing to give me a task and no 1 would have confidence in me," Massomi claimed. 

If it were not for the host spouse and children she is being with, Massomi stated, she likely would not have gotten any assist from the governing administration. However, she considers herself 1 of the blessed ones, owning studied overseas and getting a agency grasp of English. 

"About 83,000 persons have arrived in the U.S. and most of them, they really don't know English, and they have not experienced any practical experience functioning or dwelling in any other nation," Massomi claimed. "I know a great deal of individuals who have come in this article, and they’ve experienced culture shock. Given that the day they arrived below, they are not acquainted with the culture, with the language, with the strategies of performing stuff right here." 

Crowds are observed Thursday outside the house of Kabul airport prior to the deadly suicide bombing. (Reuters)

Earlier this thirty day period, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in the Residence and Senate released the Afghan Adjustment Act, a bill that would give a pathway to citizenship to the tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees. 

The legislation would permit Afghans with temporary humanitarian position to utilize for long term authorized residency in the United States – relatively than through the asylum system or Unique Immigrant Visa (SIV) process. The monthly bill would also broaden eligibility for the SIV visa, which is designated for allies who aided the American armed forces procedure in the place.

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Another Afghan who to spoke to WHD News, Anahita Walizada, 22, had a notable profession as a journalist with Zawia Media when she was forced to flee her country. 

"For me, leaving home was really difficult. I’m 1000's of miles absent from my household," she mentioned. "For my era, from boys to gals, it’s not believable to go again (to Afghanistan) for the reason that of the Taliban." 

For now, she is focusing on her reports as she adjusts to lifetime in the U.S. and has even landed a function in an impartial movie as a direct actress – when nonetheless contributing to Afghan media. 

Anahita Walizada adapting to her new everyday living in the U.S. (Nasim Dadfar via Anahita Walizada)

"I want to be free of charge. I want to be a female that decides her rights, that decides what she needs to do, and how she would like to function," Walizada reported. "There is a great deal of option for females. So, when I arrived right here, I started off learning and began finding out a new language. That was not straightforward for me. I started out finding out, I worked in a movie as a direct actress, and I started off a new journey here – free of charge, and becoming a excellent human."  

Walizada's sister, Taban Ibraz, told WHD News the earlier year has been tricky for the neighborhood, but they are identified to persevere. 

"We tried to change. For me, it was to mend to start with, mainly because we lost almost everything that we labored for. We fought for that. And all those people a long time we experimented with to transform anything in Afghanistan and worked for peace, for human rights and, in particular, women's legal rights," Ibraz explained. 

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Each Afghan who spoke to WHD News, nevertheless, expressed disappointment and aggravation with how the U.S. taken care of the withdrawal and evacuation. 

"It was in the identical issue when U.S. troops came to Afghanistan (in 2001). And then they remaining, and a terrorist team took about," Massomi explained. "And the worldwide local community has upset the individuals of Afghanistan in a lot of ways." 

Wahedy stated the withdrawal of U.S. troops and evacuation of Afghans could have been managed significantly much better. 

"I want (the U.S.) commenced before and evacuated everyone peacefully without having any issue," he explained. 

Ibraz, Massomi, Wahedy and Walizada each individual claimed they did not want to load the U.S. and, if it have been up to them, they would be residing in their house region.   

Helal Massomi with a cup of espresso in Washington, D.C. (Helal Massomi )

"Remaining in this article in the United States, and hoping to commence a new life listed here, was not one thing that we talked about or wanted. It was not my purpose. (Our) purpose was to remain in Afghanistan, study there, perform for the people, be in media, and test to alter one thing in our history mainly because anything anyone is aware about Afghanistan is war," Walizada mentioned. 

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Massomi stated if it have been up to her, she also would have stayed in Afghanistan, but is building the finest of her new daily life listed here, functioning tirelessly to aid other Afghans in the U.S. 

"We came in this article, and now we’re listed here. We want our potential to be obvious," she mentioned.  "We don’t want to be a load to the governing administration or to the people today of the U.S. We want to stand on our ft. We want to function and add to this community."

WHD News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.