'They feel overwhelming relief to be out of danger but many of them, their primary need is for assistance with protecting other family members,' the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Carolyn Graydon says.
A former interpreter for Australia, Fahim was among the first of those to be evacuated from Kabul to Perth.
“Obviously they feel overwhelming relief to be out of a situation of immediate danger to themselves but many of them, their primary need at the moment is the need for assistance with protecting other family members,” the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s principal solicitor Carolyn Graydon said. “I was able to get to Dubai but my family, they were left behind. My dad, my brothers and sisters, all of them - I couldn't go back to save them,” Amena said.
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