Ghafari had tweeted over the weekend, and given an interview in which she said she expected to die at the hands of the Taliban.
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After getting a quick thank you in response to her offer, Rowe, a North Carolina-based early stage investor with an interest in emerging markets, has heard nothing from Ghafari since. The mayor of Maidan Sharh in central Afghanistan is one of thousands of prominent activists and leaders Rowe, her fiancé David Heldt and others are hoping to airlift out of the country.
The web of efforts is ad-hoc, with some funding coming from individual donors and companies and some from philanthropists. Denver-based Women’s Regional Network, had raised about $250,000 as of Wednesday. Though there is a special visa offered to those who have directly worked with the U.S. government, and some 77,000 Afghans have immigrated to the United States on the visa, the process takes an average of two years, and nearly 71,000 people remain backlogged, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
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