Thank you so much, Ms. Zahid.
It's a fact that the Taliban has imposed strict sharia law on Afghan women. They require women to be accompanied by a mahram, a male guardian, as soon as they leave home.
I would suggest to IRCC that they need to focus on their job. They need to do their work, to issue those visas for the applicants who have applied. Let the Afghans figure out and take care of their business on the ground, because Afghans are very good at manoeuvring ourselves on the ground. We will take care of arranging a mahram and making sure that they will go to the airport or the border safely. All we are asking from the government is to give them those visas.
People like the ones on this panel, like me and my family, and so many other volunteers.... We call ourselves the “sleep-deprived volunteers”. We share the burden of IRCC's work, and we are providing the government with solutions, because we are doing most of the paperwork. We are the people who are helping them with the allowances, cash, money for food and rent on the ground. The government just needs to issue visas for them, that's all.