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World Refugee Day is Saturday, June 22, and Welcome Neighbor STL is celebrating with a World Refugee Day drive-thru lunch featuring Syrian chef and refugee Mawda Altayan.

Welcome Neighbor STL featured in the Jewish Light Digital Edition: June 5, 2024

World Refugee Day Baklava Pre-order

World Refugee Day Drive-thru Supper Club Ticket

Jessica Bueler details what led her to found Welcome Neighbor STL in 2016, and how it continues to help. Syrian refugee Mawda Altayan joins the conversation.

After coming to St. Louis from Syria in 2016 as a refugee, Mawda helped launch the Welcome Neighbor STL Supper Club program as their first chef.

When Ayman Almalla and Ghaida Al Masrabi immigrated to St. Louis in 2016, they were thrust into an unfamiliar world without any of the comforts of home.