Volunteers empty their retirement funds to save at-risk Afghans

Volunteers seeking to help at-risk Afghans and others left behind in Afghanistan have emptied their retirement accounts to fund their efforts.

Safiullah Rauf was born in a refugee camp in Afghanistan and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He subsequently enlisted in the U.S. Navy but deferred his medical school enrollment after receiving an “outpouring of cries for help” from his Afghan connections during the U.S. military’s evacuation. Instead, he formed Human First Coalition, a group whose mission is to provide safety to people left behind in Afghanistan and now living under the Taliban government.