Education
A safer year-round route can make school access more reliable for girls and boys living on opposite sides of the river.
Washington, D.C. area · Roots in Badakhshan, Afghanistan
Rooted there.
Based here.
Still connected.
Mohibi Foundation is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting practical projects in communities our family knows personally.
About this footage
Filmed in Keshem District, Badakhshan, by villagers and our extended relatives. A motorcycle crosses the temporary bridge the villagers built themselves, then families walk out to the river to ask for a permanent one.
U.S. nonprofit501(c)(3)
EIN93-1359332
BasedWashington, D.C. area
FounderMohibullah Mansoori
Why these projects
These are not problems
we found on a list.
Our family comes from these communities in Badakhshan. Extended relatives, family friends, and people our family has known for generations still live there. When they describe a dangerous crossing, a student whose education has stopped, or a practical need affecting daily life, we are hearing from people and places that are part of our own story.
We focus on a limited number of specific needs where our family has a real connection. Each project begins with a documented community request, then moves through planning, budgeting, the right technical expertise, implementation, and reporting to the funding partner.
You do not have to fund “the Foundation.” You can help make one defined project possible.
The bridge they built themselvesCommunity field footage · 2026 · English subtitles
YouTube ↗
Flagship project · Seeking engineering + funding partners
Keshem / Kishim District · Badakhshan Province
A bridge that changes
everyday life.
Villagers and extended relatives have asked our family to help pursue a permanent crossing at this river. There is no bridge at the proposed location. The need touches school access, emergency and healthcare access, family movement, agriculture, livestock, trade, and basic safety.
Residents report repeated drownings during attempted crossings. The next step is a professional assessment of the site: the river, the span, the ground, the design, local requirements, upkeep, and the final construction budget, so that a bridge can be built safely and last.
Early estimate: $500,000 · design, construction, access roads, contingency
Health & emergencies
A permanent crossing can improve access to clinics, transport, and urgent assistance when time matters.
Families
The river separates relatives and neighboring communities. A bridge reconnects ordinary family and community life.
Agriculture & trade
Farmers can move livestock, grain, crops, equipment, and goods more safely between fields, villages, roads, and markets.
Life safety
The goal is to reduce the risk people currently accept simply to cross the river for everyday needs.
Field footage from the community
See the crossing, the people, and the river conditions directly.
These clips were recorded by extended relatives and villagers and sent directly to the Mohibi family. They play here on the website, with English subtitles translated from the original Dari.
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Aerial & location context
The river, surrounding farmland, settlements, and the scale of the crossing area.
02
The community’s request
Over drone footage of the valley, a community speaker describes 10 to 12 kilometers of river with no safe crossing, and the roughly 10,000 households who depend on it.
03
A teacher speaks
A teacher from the Baluch villages explains why children from the western village cannot reach school, and what residents have seen at this crossing.
04
The same river in summer
Field footage of the river in flood, showing why crossing becomes dangerous for months at a time.
The full film · 12 minutes · English subtitles
Kids drown crossing this river just to get to school.
Elders, a teacher, and families from the western and eastern Baluch villages of Keshem explain what this river does to their lives. At the end, you'll see the same river in summer.
Watch on YouTube ↗Project location
Documented on the ground.
The Foundation has community-submitted video, drone footage, and location information. The coordinates below identify the area shown in the current project materials; the final bridge alignment must be confirmed through professional site work.
- Latitude
- 36.86167278
- Longitude
- 70.08100000
Infrastructure & community development
A few real needs.
One project at a time.
Each project begins with a documented need and moves through technical scoping, a verified budget, implementation planning, and reporting.
Health · Keshem District
Community Health Access
Around 1998, a boy in our family cut his leg with an axe and was carried by donkey for over an hour to reach care. Our village still has no clinic. We want to build one.
Learn more →
Water · Keshem District
Clean Water & Irrigation
Water decides whether families can drink safely, grow food and keep livestock. We are developing a canal and irrigation plan with the community.
Learn more →
Agriculture · Shared equipment
Local Agriculture & Farm Equipment
Most families here farm, but few have access to machinery. The idea is shared equipment that many farmers can use, not one machine for one family.
Learn more →Programs & direct support
Programs running now.
Running since about 2021
Girls’ Community Education
Since girls lost access to school, we have supported small local learning groups with books, supplies and a teacher. A volunteer also teaches about 17 girls English on WhatsApp.
About 24 households each month
Monthly Family Assistance
Every month we help about 24 families facing hardship with food and basic needs, mostly through cash help, and with delivered groceries for those who cannot shop.
Education · Türkiye
Türkiye University Pathway
About four Afghan students are studying at universities in Türkiye with our help. We help with admissions, visas and finding sponsors, and need donors for their remaining costs.
Helping families earn
Livelihood Support
When we can, we help a family build its own income. We bought sheep for a father who was a shepherd and helped another family open a small shop beside their home.
Kishm Youth Volleyball Team
Sports & Talent Development
We are supporting the Kishm Youth Volleyball Team, and want to help talented young players reach bigger competitions and opportunities.
Prevention · Tablet K
Youth Drug Awareness & Prevention
Dangerous pills sold as “Tablet K” are harming young people in communities we know. We hold awareness sessions in schools, mosques and gatherings, and are looking for expert partners.
Our story
This is personal to us.
Our family grew up in war, survived it, built a new life in America, and never forgot where we came from.
The Mohibi Foundation was created by the Mohibi family, a family that grew up in war, lived through war, survived it, and eventually built a new life in the United States.
Our family comes from Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Keshem is part of our family history. Our parents were born there, relatives still live there, and many of the people and communities behind the Foundation’s projects are people our family knows personally.
War shaped much of our family’s life. We experienced loss, displacement, insecurity, and the uncertainty that comes with living through conflict. In 1996, when the Taliban took Kabul, our family left the city and returned north toward Badakhshan. Years later, war reached our family again. When Kabul fell in 2021, we once more faced the fear of trying to get members of our family to safety.
Over time, members of our family came to the United States and built a new life. America gave our family safety, stability, education, work, and the ability to plan for a future that had often felt uncertain.
But leaving Afghanistan did not mean leaving behind the people and places we came from.
Many of our relatives, friends, and communities remain there. When they tell us about a student who cannot continue an education, a village that needs a safe bridge, a family struggling to reach basic services, or another practical problem, it is not an abstract issue to us.
It is personal.
The Mohibi Foundation is our family’s way of giving back.
We cannot do everything. We focus on specific needs in communities we know, understand what can realistically be done, and work with people who can help make one project possible.
Rooted there. Based here. Still connected.
Much of our family’s story, from the war and the losses to leaving Afghanistan and starting again in America, is told in the book WarGuy. Read WarGuy to learn more about us
Mohibullah MansooriFounder, Mohibi Foundation
Founder
This work begins
with where he came from.
Mohibullah Mansoori founded the Mohibi Foundation because the communities behind its projects are part of his own story.
Born in Balocha in Keshem District, Badakhshan, he grew up knowing what it means when transportation, education, healthcare, clean water, and basic infrastructure cannot be taken for granted.
After building a life in the United States, he wanted his family to remain connected to the people and places they came from and to help where they could.
From the Washington, D.C. area, the Foundation gives the family a practical way to do that: listen to people we know, understand what is needed, determine what can realistically be done, find the right partners, and stay connected to the work.
“We cannot do everything. But with the right partner, we can help make one real project possible.”
Our Team
KM
President
Khusraw Mohibi
Leads Foundation strategy, program development, project planning, and institutional relationships.
HM
Country Director, Afghanistan
Homa Mohibi
Coordinates local relationships, community needs documentation, and project follow-up in Afghanistan.
ZM
Treasurer
Zeynep Mohibi
Supports financial stewardship, project budgeting, records, internal controls, and donor reporting.
KN
Director of Partnerships & Communications
Khalida Noor
Leads university, donor, and institutional partnerships and the Foundation’s external communications.
Accountability
Accountability
& transparency.
Defined scope
Major projects move forward only after the relevant technical, local, financial, and implementation assumptions are documented.
Responsible stewardship
Charitable funds are managed by the Foundation and applied to approved programs and project budgets with appropriate records and oversight.
Project reporting
Funding partners receive an agreed plan for milestone, financial, photo/video, and completion reporting appropriate to the project.
Verified commitments
Project timelines, engineering assumptions, approvals, budgets, and beneficiary estimates are communicated after they are documented and verified.
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For a bridge, scholarship, healthcare, water, livelihood project, grant, or institutional partnership, contact us before sending project funds. We will discuss scope, documentation, budget development, reporting, and the appropriate payment process.
