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A special reception will be held on the evening of Thursday, April 25, from 6 to 9 PM, where guests will have the opportunity to meet Lamboley and explore her collection. In a generous gesture of [...]

Local leaders making an impact on neighborhoods across the region

In 2021, Faisal Ghandiwal and his family rushed to the airport to flee Afghanistan, but Ghandiwal was the only one of his immediate family to make it out. After a few months in Qatar he made it [...]

Enter Welcome Neighbor STL, which has carved out a niche helping refugees after their federal resettlement funds are exhausted—and mobilizing volunteers in the community eager to help.

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

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.

Among the many people who have stepped up to help, one St. Louis Catholic (Ann Wittman) has provided for the newcomers in ways she never could have imagined.