From Mazar-i Sharif to Greece…

While I focused on Syrian refugees with disabilities in my latest Huffington Post piece, “More Help Needed for Syria’s Disabled and Maimed,” there are also many Afghan refugees with disabilities who are attempting to make the long journey to asylum through Europe. A recent BBC article highlights a group of Afghan refugees from Mazar-i Sharif who are in the middle of their trek — including an ailing grandmother whose grandchildren have been struggling to carry her and her wheelchair across long stretches of gravel in Europe. Now that the Taliban have seized control of the strategic city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, the steady stream of refugees fleeing from Afghanistan to Europe will undoubtedly increase…