![]() ![]() Saraya International, a global development firm, and the Rockefeller Foundation, which both provided organizational support for the flight to Uganda, as well as another company involved with the evacuation, confirmed to the AP that the flight was chartered by the emergency collaboration financed through Marcus’ Go FundMe campaign. “It’s beyond humbling that they have that faith in me, that they’re willing to put significant amounts of money into hands that I trust,” Marcus told The Associated Press. More than 121,000 people had donated to the campaign after Marcus made an appeal to his 832,000 followers, making it one of the largest humanitarian fundraisers in GoFundMe’s history. ![]() ‘Please help’: Afghan human rights activist turned to Canada to save family from the Taliban Subscriber content According to organizers, the foundation, which supports female journalists, will use the money to “partner with experienced organizations and experts to support people once they are on safe ground.Ottawa offers no concrete measures to rescue Canadians and Afghan refugees left behind in Afghanistan withdrawal from Afghanistan, the GoFundMe campaign said it will donate whatever money remains to the Washington-based organization International Women’s Media Foundation. Though rescue flights are now winding down with the pending deadline of U.S. “There’s not necessarily going to be a public report on where these funds went and how they were used, in the way that a nonprofit - or a 501(c)(3) - is required to by law,” she said. Though crowdfunding has been a welcome tool to mobilize donations during crisis situations, Patricia McIlreavy, president of the Washington-based Center for Disaster Philanthropy, stresses that donors should be cautious when donating to private efforts through these sites. It could be the young people and older people who have been very outspoken against the different atrocities of committed by the Taliban in the past.” It’s going be women that work in journalism and teachers. “They thought they were going to stay there, with us backing them, for the long haul. “Our focus was the people who wanted to build their country into something great,” he said. The goal, Ford noted, is to ferry Afghan citizens that have been targeted by the Taliban out of the country. Though the deadly suicide bombing at the airport on Thursday complicated their efforts, Ford says those they are helping must have passports, a relative his group can communicate with and someone vouching for them who has passed a background check. government has to be “comfortable with our organization saying these people are OK, and that they have actually done things to help their country, to help our country.” Raven Advisory CEO Sheffield Ford told the AP that in order to transport the people into the airport, the U.S. Without Operation Flyaway's quick funding, that flight wouldn’t have gotten off the ground.” “Their last-minute funding, along with the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation, Schmidt Futures and other donors, was critical. “They were one of many miracles we experienced in this time,” Shadian said. Sayara's Shadian said he had met “Operation Flyaway” members on Zoom only earlier in the week and in the chaos of the Kabul evacuations was thrilled they agreed to fund the flight. military, said "an all-volunteer team consisting of former Special Forces soldiers and other veterans with expertise in Afghanistan” were working with the military to coordinate their rescue efforts. ![]() The company, which says it performs subcontract work for the U.S. Representatives from that North Carolina-based company, Raven Advisory, said they were able to pay for the mission using money raised through Marcus' GoFundMe campaign. The flight from Kabul to Entebbe, Uganda, was organized by Sayara, which advised a company working with Marcus that it knew of a plane available for “Operation Flyaway.” The chartered flight that left Kabul early Wednesday morning is one of several private rescue efforts being organized by various groups, separately and through collaborations, to help Afghans flee. Ugandan officials said the nation would shelter up to 2,000 people who are expected to be relocated elsewhere after a temporary stay in the country. ![]() government, Uganda received the evacuees, who will stay at hotels in a city outside the country's capital, Kampala. We are grateful we got out as many people as we did against the greatest odds we’ve ever faced.”Īt the request of the U.S. Simply put, the institutions failed, and it breaks my heart how much more we could have accomplished. "I’m so proud of our extraordinary team and what we were able to accomplish in such a short time,” said Sayara CEO Scott Shadian. ![]()
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