Work in Afghanistan
In 1992, Almalki sponsored an Afghan orphan through a Canadian NGO, and decided to travel to the country for three months. The following year, he returned for two months to volunteer with Human Concern International, in projects funded by the United Nations Development Programme.
Upon returning to Canada, Almalki married Khuzaima in October 1993, who was pursuing her Ph.D. in Economics. The couple returned to Afghanistan to work with HCI. However, the organisation had brought back Ahmed Khadr as their regional director, after he recuperated from an earlier injury, and Almalki found his leadership and workaholic tendencies to be overbearing, and left the organisation in April 1994, earlier than intended.
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