Support the Hazara Encyclopedia Foundation

Welcome to the official GoFundMe page for the Hazara Encyclopedia Project, a groundbreaking initiative spearheaded by the Afghan Youth Association. Our goal is to preserve and celebrate the vibrant culture and rich history of the Hazara community through the creation of a comprehensive encyclopedia.

Your generous contributions will play a pivotal role in advancing this project by covering essential costs such as in-depth research, meticulous verification processes, high-quality publication, and effective digitalization of the Hazara Encyclopedia. This invaluable resource will not only serve as a testament to the resilience and heritage of the Hazara people but also as a beacon of knowledge for future generations.

By supporting this campaign, you are not just funding a project; you are becoming a part of a movement to safeguard and promote the cultural legacy of the Hazara community. Join us in this noble endeavor by making a donation today. Your contribution, no matter the size, will make a significant impact in preserving the rich tapestry of Hazara history.

Together, let's write history and create a lasting legacy for generations to come. Thank you for standing with us in this important mission.

تدوین «دانشنامه هزاره» تاکنون از طریق کمک‌های مردمی و فروش جلد نخست دانشنامه مقدور شده است. در حال حاضر تدوین جلد دوم دانشنامه در مراحل پایانی قرار دارد. با مساعدت مالی خود در ادامه و تکمیل این طرح پژوهشی ماندگار سهم بگیرید

هدف ما حفظ تاریخ و فرهنگ غنی قوم هزاره به کمک تدوین یک دانشنامه جامع است. سهم‌ سخاوتمندانه شما در پیشبرد این طرح و تولید یک متن مرجع برای نسل آینده نقشی حیاتی دارد

با حمایت از این کارزار، شما نه فقط یک طرح تحقیقاتی را حمایت می‌کنید؛ بلکه به بخشی از یک جنبش برای حفظ و ترویج میراث فرهنگی جامعه هزاره می‌پیوندید.

از این‌ که در این ماموریت مهم و دشوار فرهنگی با ما همراه هستید، سپاس‌گزاریم.

What is the Hazara Encyclopaedia? https://hazarapaedia.org/en/what-is-hazara-encyclopaedia/

Score of the study:

The Hazara Encyclopaedia project is one part of - and an introduction to - a greater and more extensive proposal of the Encyclopaedia of Afghanistan’s Ethnicities. This project aims to build a base of knowledge and information about Afghan society and its culture as a whole. Considering that Afghanistan is comprised of nearly 50 ethnic groups including Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks, very few extensive and reliable studies have been conducted on them thus far.

Aim of the project:

The Hazara Encyclopaedia has great academic importance in Afghanistan, considering that there is a serious dearth of high-quality, scholarly information on Afghan society and its ethnic groups. Importantly, however, the encyclopaedia is not only an academic reference. Whilst our work is academic research, our aims more broadly support a wide range of needs for Afghan civil society and seek to protect and amplify Afghan voices within the country and abroad.

Our project aims are:

● To fill this aforementioned dearth of knowledge and information in Afghanistan’s academic literature base and act to improve the level of education in the country.

● To empower and upskill Afghans themselves, with our field researchers and writers. We especially seek to employ women, refugees, and other minority groups. Following the Taliban takeover, many people could not work including those in civil society and activism.

● Longer-term, the above aims are working towards capacity building and ensuring sustainability in the field of research, publishing, and academia in Afghanistan.

● To protect the rights of all ethnic minority groups by giving evidence of their role in the politics, culture, history, and nation-building of Afghanistan. This will enable minority groups to be fairly represented and minimise persecution against them.

● To provide relevant researchers, institutions and states in western countries with a reliable, factual, academic reference about the highly complex and shrouded culture of Afghanistan and of thousands of Afghan refugees.

● We hope that this integration of the diaspora will act as a response to the identity crisis that the new generation of Afghan diaspora faces in the West. This is the generation that often do not have a good understanding of their mother language and native nation.

For more information regarding Hazara Encyclopaedia, please visit: https://hazarapaedia.org/en/

Your generous contributions will play a pivotal role in advancing this project.

Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Afghan Youth Association UK