Help Azam Baig destitute family in Pakistan

My name is Azam Baig, s/o Jahan Baig, and I belong to the valley of mountaineers, Shimshal, located in the far north of Pakistan. My father, my role model and sole bread earner in the family of 5 was a High Altitude Porter. He summited Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II as HAP back in the 2000s, and since I belong to such a village where mountaineers are regarded as heroes, it is natural that I looked up to him a lot as he was my hero. But in 2008, he had an accident on K2 above the death zone. He went missing while he was on his way to rescue the climber with another company after, abandoning his summit push because helping people in need mattered the most rather than his own personal glory. He went missing at 31, and his body was never found. At the time of his death, I was nine years old, my younger brother was six years old, and my youngest sibling, my sister, was three years old.

After my father’s death, we received money through insurance which was 200,000PKR or 916USD, which was not enough for one year, even for an individual. The company with whom he was associated promised to sponsor the education of Jahan Baig’s three children, but to this day, we haven’t received any call or had any contact with them as they ignored us.

Right after his death, my childhood ended since I was the elder son of my family, and my mother supported us from livestock and a small agricultural land till I was 16 years old and in 10th grade. So I had to give up my studies because my mother couldn’t afford the study expenses of her three kids at the same time. So I went to a small restaurant in Hunza and started earning money as a waiter in that restaurant to support my family. Afterward, I became a mountain guide because I wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps, and it needed a very low investment, but it has been badly affected due to climate change for the past two years, and I’m in debt right now. Now my siblings are growing up, and now I have to support them for their higher education, but due to the above-mentioned reason, I’m finding it very hard to manage their education expenses.