Ghafouri had participated in aid missions in Ethiopia and India. In Iraq's Kurdistan Region, Ghafouri an epidemiological survey on risk factors faced by conflict-zone survivors. She was part of wide-ranging relief efforts, such as missions to Iran to help earthquake survivors. When the ISIL began the exploitation and genocide of Yazidis during the War in Iraq, Ghafouri helped the refugees arriving wounded and traumatized at the border and made it her primary focus to help them. She founded the Joint Help for Kurdistan, an aid organization, and set up a clinic at one of the refugee camps; as of April 2021, thousands of displaced Yazidi families still lived in this camp.