![]() I was with my family with my kids,” Qara said. “It’s just like a sad story, leaving my own country. After paying bills and sending money home to his family who remain in Afghanistan, Qara said he has no money left to pay for schooling to get a flight license in the U.S. Qara works full-time as a water quality technician for the Western Virginia Water Authority at the Crystal Spring Plant in Roanoke, and on weekends and evenings he delivers food through DoorDash. His story is common among refugees who come to the United States and find themselves in a place where their skills and talents go unused. Qara would like to get his commercial pilot license in the U.S., but he said he cannot afford the cost of flight school. I wish I could fly again one day, but I don’t have the budget to go to school here” in the United States. “I loved my job when I was flying and serving my country,” he said. After graduation, he underwent flight training from the U.S. ![]() backed National Military Academy of Afghanistan in 2012. He earned a degree in language and culture with a focus on aviation from the U.S. Qara did not know anyone who could teach him, so he bought a book from a local shop translating phrases in his native language of Dari to English ![]() Qara went to ask him about being a pilot and was told he needed to learn English, the language used in aviation around the world. When Qara was in high school a family friend in the Afghan military visited his village. “People was all around, it was kind of exciting to see.” “It was the first time I have seen a big helicopter,” Qara said. When he was about 10 years old, Qara watched an Afghan pilot make an emergency landing with a helicopter in his farming village in northern Afghanistan. “I feel sad sometimes because I am still thinking about flying,” Qara said.
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