Photo — B&W: the Nazari family, kitchen table · 1280×720
4:12
"For months nobody knew our name. Then eight people learned all five of them."Watch their story
A promise kept, one family at a time
They Stood with us. Now we stand
WITH THEM.
The Afghan allies who fought alongside our troops are here, on American soil, and largely on their own. We help ally families get on their feet and pair families with an American sponsor team that walks with them for twelve months.
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Registered 501(c)(3)
EIN 99-1259372
EIN 99-1259372
What broke
Eight years of trust, undone in eighteen months.
An interpreter's job was to stand close enough to an American patrol to be heard — which meant standing close enough to be remembered. That risk was supposed to be answered with a visa, a status, a place to land. Most of those answers have gone quiet.
"They were more than our interpreters. They were our teammates, our brothers, and often the reason we made it home. Helping them build a new life in America is our chance to return that service."
Chad · USMC Veteran, 8 deployments to Afghanistan
Four promises: Current status
Read our position
Stalled
178,000
SIV applicants
Still in the backlog. Waits measured in years, not months.
Revoked
14,000
TPS holders
Protection withdrawn — and work authorization with it.
Terminated
CARE
Resettlement support
Housing, English, and job placement for new arrivals. Ended.
Active
12 mo.
A KIAC sponsor team
Rent, rides, English, enrollment, work, friendship. Neighbors, not caseworkers.
Our founder
The ally returning kindness.
Aziz spent over a decade as an interpreter and ally to American forces. After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, he was hunted for the service records he could not un-write, and pulled out by a volunteer network of U.S. veterans. He resettled in Houston and found hundreds of ally families arriving into nothing at all.
"My family’s story could have ended in fear and uncertainty. Instead, the kindness of others gave us a new beginning. This organization's mission is to carry that kindness forward."
Aziz · Founder of Kindness in Action
Saving Aziz
The account of his rescue — a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
On the record
FOX · CNN · CBN · WSJ, and stages across the country.
What we do
Three things, in order
of what a family needs first.
Stabilize the household. Build the community around it. Then walk the year together.
Pillar one · primary
Essential
services
Rent relief, groceries, transportation, medical navigation, school enrollment, and legal referrals — delivered in the first ninety days, when a household either steadies or collapses.
Emergency rent & utilities
Grocery & transit support
Documents, clinics, enrollment
Day nine in Houston · an ally family, still unpacking
Pillar two
Hub events
Monthly gatherings at churches across the U.S. where ally families, sponsor teams, congregations, and veterans meet each other as neighbors — not as clients and providers.
Hub EventsPillar three
The Walk
One Afghan ally family, one American sponsor team, Twelve months. Trained, vetted, and staff-supported with a real integration plan.
The WalkWays to help
Pick the way
you can show up.
Four doors, one promise. Every one of them gives a family real support that they need to get their feet under them.
Path one · most needed
Give monthly
Recurring gifts are what let us promise a family twelve months instead of twelve weeks.
$25
A week of bus passes and groceries
$50
A month of English tutoring for one adult
Sponsor level
$150
Sponsors one family's full integration journey
Other
Give now
$50
Grocery relief for one family
$150
A month of transport to work and school
$500
A month's rent relief for one family
Other
Give now
Tax-deductible · Registered 501(c)(3) · Cancel anytime
Path two
Walk with
a family
Build a sponsor team of four to eight people. Twelve months, real relationship, full training and a staff case lead.
Houston metro only
Start the interest form
Path three
Partner
your church
One congregation can carry three to five families. We bring the playbook, the vetting, and the on-ramp events.
Nationwide
Church partnership
Path four
Mentor as
a veteran
If you served with them, you already speak the language. Peer mentors are matched one-to-one with ally fathers and mothers.
Remote or in person
Veteran mentor program
Stories
Families, in their own words.
Photo — B&W: Rahim at his first American job · 1280×720
3:38
"I trusted Americans with my life once. It turns out I can do it twice."Watch his story
Photo — B&W: sponsor team from Sugar Land with the family they walk with · 1280×720
5:02
"We thought we were signing up to help. We ended up with a second family."Watch their story