Nemat is 13-year-old boy who lives in an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each of his ten fingers were systematically fractured or broken by his stepmother over five years of abuse. Now in safety, surgery is necessary to heal his digits and to become part of his road towards becoming whole again and moving beyond his troubled past.

Every orphan child is our collective responsibility. This Ramadan this crowdfunding campaign seeks to make this boy whole again.  

Why This Matters

At his tender age, Nemat has a story wrapped in suffering, grief, and trauma.

His mother died when he was two. His father re-married and shortly afterwards left Afghanistan – never to be heard from again. His stepmother took over his care. She was abusive and beat Nemat regularly. The abuse included lashing him over the head with a stick. Over years of abuse, she had systematically fractured or broke each of his ten fingers. 

One day, after a particularly bad beating, his stepmother put him out of the home. Nemat was nine. He became a street urchin. He found work at a mechanic’s shop doing odd jobs and washing cars. The owner of that shop provided Nemat with room and board along with one meal a day. After a little more than a year there, Nemat ran away. A police officer found him sleeping in a ditch. 

The Operation

Through five years of abuse, the joints in Nemat’s fingers had fractured and healed on multiple occasions. The healing happened without medical intervention. As a result, his fingers acquired an awkward positioning that made use of his digits difficult and sometimes painful. He had trouble performing basic daily tasks like brushing his teeth and holding an utensil to eat.

Shortly after his arrival at the orphanage in 2012, Orphan House Foundation paid for basic surgery on his right hand so he could regain proper use of one hand. Three years later, Nemat now needs that same operation on his left hand. That surgery will be coupled with an extended regimen of physical rehabilitation on both hands to ensure his digits fully heal so that his injuries do not become a hindrance or a disability later in life. His medical care in Afghanistan is overseen by Dr. Kadeer Halimi, who is an Emergency Room physician in Fremont, California and founder of Orphan House Foundation.

Nemat aspires to one day become a police officer or join the Afghan National Army. He currently attends a private school and lives at the orphanage with 22 other orphan boys.

An Islamic Mandate to Help Orphans

How You Can Help

1. Personally invest in Nemat’s story by donating to this campaign today. Donations are Zakat eligible and tax exempt. This campaign closes on the last day of Ramadan, and the blessings for good deeds performed during Ramadan are multiplied 70 times.

2. Please make dua for this crowdfunding campaign (and our other campaign) and for Nemat’s surgery and rehabilitation.

3. Share the campaign with your friends! Post this on your Facebook and like our page to follow our progress! Tweet all about this campaign!

4. Join the Orphan House Foundation mailing list and receive updates about the orphans.

About Orphan House Foundation

• Orphan House Foundation is a San Francisco Bay Area-based educational nonprofit that supports 23 boys at its orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each child is raised with a quality-over-quantity approach. The organization’s tagline is a “home where we raise orphans like our own.”

• The quality-orphan stewardship ethos has translated into recognition in 2013 by the European Union as “the best orphanage in Kabul.”

• Each orphan is housed in a safe, clean home and receives private schooling, quality healthcare, physical education, extracurricular activities and field trips.

• Orphan House Foundation is run by volunteers so your contributions go directly and only to the proper care and feeding of orphans.
  
  

Your donation is 100 percent tax-deductible and zakat-eligible.

Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Dr. Kadeer Halimi & The Orphan House Foundation Team


All donations are tax-deductible! Orphan House Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 organization, Tax ID 27-3290920.