'This Is the Future of Afghanistan': Selendy & Gay's Managing Partner Is Helping Young Girls Evacuate and Find Hope
Jennifer Selendy's Thirty Birds Foundation has successfully evacuated more than 400 Afghan girls and at-risk community members so far.
November 02, 2021 at 12:47 PM
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Pro BonoIn August, Selendy & Gay founding and managing partner Jennifer Selendy helped launch a project that was later named The Thirty Birds Foundation, focused on the evacuation of hundreds of at-risk girls and community members affiliated with the Marefat High School in Kabul, Afghanistan. So far, some 250 girls—all members of an ethnic minority group called Hazara—have arrived in Saskatoon, Canada, and are in the process of being resettled. Another 150 are currently awaiting evacuation from Pakistan to Ecuador.
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