Ghafouri's family fled from Afghanistan to Iran in 1996 or 1997 as the Taliban took over, when she was six years old.
[1] As a child in Iran, she worked as a labourer, her parents could not afford to put her and her four siblings through school.
[1] In 2015, She co-founded the Youth Initiative Fund in Shiraz to support the needs of vulnerable children.
[1] The fund is supported by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Iran's Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants’ Affairs and it provides support to 400 children per year; services provided include education, physical activity, and social support.
[1][3] Ghafouri was the Asia regional winner of the Nansen Refugee Award in 2020.