Tolo Shams

Our Story

Sharing is beautiful

I can still remember it well. Ali, Isamail and I were all six years old. We played all day long and enjoyed our friendship. Whenever we wanted something to eat, we would run to our pa-rents’ houses. There, everyone would call for their mum to get sweets and something to eat. Most of the time, the supply was secured from the balcony. “Maaaamaaaa can you throw me something sweet? A little more Maaaamaaaa, I’m with Ali and Ismaiiilll!!!!!” Then we ran back again and ate everything we could get at home together. We played together, shared our “sweets” and our bread. It filled us up even then. Even if we couldn’t put it into words, we knew that everything tastes better and is more beautiful when you share it.

Sharing to fight evil 

In the neighbourhood where we lived, there were small cliques of young people, the “gangs”. They bullied the weaker ones and some of them were dealers or drug users. We witnessed women lying raped on the side of the road. We saw that the world was not the ideal world we knew from the TV series. Evil was spreading and we wanted to share in order to fight evil. The growing influence of the cliques soon had its consequences. Some of our friends got involved with them and did the same crooked things. Drugs, robbery, violence and much more became part of the lives of many. However, we didn’t want to give up on our friends so easily. We were allowed to enjoy the good and the sharing. We grew older and our cosmos expanded. When we were about 15 years old, we no longer organised tournaments and other activities just in the neighbourhood, but in almost all of Kabul. We could and wanted to offer hundreds of young people an alternative.

Incredibly powerful weapon

Colour, nationality, origin and religion were not
religion could not play a role. No matter who you are
where you come from and where you are going, you have the right to share! We realised that this sharing was an incredibly powerful weapon. The battle against evil was in full swing.

Our group of friends grew

Our circle of friends grew and more and more international. German, Portuguese, Ghanaian,Guinean, Russian, Afghan, Spanish, Turkish, Thai and many more. The situation in these”countries”, has led us to actively fight against evil not only those in need in our neighbourhood from our neighbourhood should be helped neighbourhood, but all the inhabitantsof this earth who were in need.

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