Tucson Opinion: How you can help Afghan refugees | Local Editorials and Opinion

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Later, when Afghan families start new lives here, we can volunteer with local organizations and work directly with new Tucsonans to help them adapt. New families need continuous support, for example with language, shopping, tutoring and visits to the doctor. There is something for everyone to do.

While it is easy to wring your hands or get angry watching the situation in Afghanistan worsen, we will all feel a little better if we do something to improve conditions for at least some of the Afghan people . We can provide them with humanitarian aid, help the most vulnerable to leave the country, and welcome them to our community.

The views expressed herein are the authors’ own views and are not those of the University of Arizona or the Arizona Board of Regents.

Maggy Zanger, professor of practice at the UA School of Journalism. From 2011 to 2015 she led a partnership program with a journalism department at an Afghan university.

Atifa Rawan is a retired library faculty who has led and advised several UA projects with Afghan academic institutions.

Jeannine Relly, UA professor, worked on the Afghan journalism partnership and carried out media research in Afghanistan with Zanger and an Afghan research assistant.

Julie Ellison-Speight, UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies Associate Director.

Anne Betteridge, director of the UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

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