Actress-filmmaker Shreya Patel extends a helping hand to two Afghan girls

The extremist Islamist organization Taliban recently seized control of Afghanistan, leading to utter chaos in the nation - Jyothi Venkatesh

In the wake of continuously deteriorating situations, celebrities from across the world took to social media to extend a helping hand to the sufferers.

Posts voicing the problems of Afghans, open letters and heart-wrenching images soon flooded Instagram and Twitter.

One such celebrity is actress and filmmaker Shreya Patel, whose initiative to help two Afghan sisters received an enormous response on Instagram.

Shreya posted a message that read “URGENT…Does anyone know someone who can help two Afghan girls (both are sisters and medical doctors) get Visa for any country so they can evacuate from Kabul.

Their dad is sitting with me crying and scared that his daughters will be stripped away from their rights and forced to get married to Taliban).