Six ways to bring something to this work.
Hazara United is a small community organization. Read the categories below, find where your skill or your time fits, and write to us in a sentence or two. A human will reply within three to five business days.
Advocacy
Reach the people with decision-making power in your country. Two ways in: help us extend the toolbox (template letters, petitions, and rep-finder links for the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, with more countries to add), or actually use it - send the letters, sign and circulate the petitions, get others in your network to do the same. Two to four hours either way, and a working understanding of how government works where you live.
Write to us about advocacyFundraising
We are not currently running a structured fundraising program. If you want to organize one, for a specific named need such as a family awaiting resettlement, school supplies for a Hazara school in Quetta, or medical bills after a bombing, tell us. This is the highest-trust category on the page and we move slowly. Direct community ties, careful documentation, and discretion matter more here than enthusiasm.
Write to us about fundraisingWriting
This is the Articles and Stories pipeline: reported pieces, historical research, profiles, explainers. Writers do not need to be Hazara, but they need to be careful with sources and willing to be edited. A first contribution is pitching one 800 to 1,500 word piece with three to five sources, or fact-checking a draft already in the pipeline. Plan on ten to twenty hours per piece, plus editing rounds.
Write to us about writingTranslation
Dari and Hazaragi translators help the platform reach Hazara readers in their own languages, and bring Hazara-language sources into our English work. Urdu, Farsi, German, and French are also useful for covering Hazara communities outside Afghanistan. A first contribution is translating one short page, a template letter, an article, a culture entry, or reviewing a translation already drafted. One to three hours, native or near-native fluency.
Write to us about translationCuration
Help us document Hazara cultural heritage before more of it is lost. Family photographs, oral histories from elders, letters and documents, recordings of music and poetry, objects with stories attached. The work is patient and relationship-paced: making contact, recording context, getting permissions, organizing what comes in. Useful backgrounds include archival, library, oral history, anthropology, or journalism work, but lived community connection matters more than credentials.
Write to us about curationPrograms
Organize and run programs that bring the community together and pass culture to the next generation. Hazaragi language classes for kids growing up outside Afghanistan, youth mentoring, cultural events around Nowruz, poetry nights, dambura sessions, professional networking gatherings. If you are running, or want to run, a program for your local Hazara community, tell us in a paragraph: what it is, who it serves, what city, what stage, and what specifically would help. Programs run on showing up.
Write to us about programsSomething else?
If your contribution does not fit any of the six categories above and you still think you could help, write anyway. We would rather hear from you and figure it out together.