Aziz Royesh was born in 1969 in Fazel Baig, Kabul, Afghanistan.
Because Royesh had no family in Quetta, he worked in tailor shops, bakeries, and small factories to support himself.
At the age of 16, he returned to Afghanistan and established five schools in Ghazni province.
After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Marefat High School was transferred to Kabul's Dashte Barchi while a branch in Pakistan remained open.
[1] The Marefat School and Royesh are subjects of a non-fiction work, "The Last Thousand: One School's Promise in a Nation at War" (2016) by American writer Jeffrey E. Stern.