"I love my job because it makes me closer to people," says Altayan.

Did you miss the Virtual Mayoral Candidate Forum with Tishaura O. Jones and Cara Spencer for Mayor of St. Louis City, sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha [...]

COVID-19 has put a pause on many things, but one St. Louis organization has been able to keep its mission alive despite the pandemic.

Story By Cheryl Baehr | Welcome Neighbor STL's drive-thru supper clubs are a lifeline for refugees.

09/28/2020 | KSDK National Neighbor Day Segment - featuring the Welcome Neighbor STL Drive-Thru Supper Club Events

The Supper Club dinners have done just that. To date, there have been 78 dinners held throughout St. Louis City and County, raising $121,000. One hundred [...]

Our families have done a fantastic job at finding steady work and to be able to become self-sufficient. Two of our refugee families have even purchased [...]

“This venture will turn our refugee and immigrant classroom space into an emergency warming center for the homeless on Saturday nights,”

Welcome Neighbor STL functions as a community group that supports immigrants and refugees as they begin a new life in St. Louis. According to the founder [...]

Welcome Neighbor is a community group that supports immigrants and refugees as they begin a new life in St. Louis. It hosts a regular supper club where [...]

Two Webster students, Neha Purswaney and Addi Rios began volunteering for Welcome Neighbor STL after professor Lindsey Kingston introduced them to the [...]

In the dark, intimate, black and gold dining room at The W Karaoke Lounge in University City, Missouri, I saw my entire childhood in Palestine spread out [...]

Business alumna Jessica Bueler (second from left) founded the nonprofit Welcome Neighbor STL in 2016 to improve the lives of refugees settling in St. [...]

“When I was 8 years old, my mother walked out on our family and left me and my three little sisters to be raised by my father,” Bueler says. “I promised [...]

Imagine you’re a refugee. You have fled your home country because of civil war or danger or poverty. You end up in a new country, but you don’t speak the [...]

St. Louis’ longest-running program awarding area women for their volunteerism will recognize the class of 2019 during its 64th-annual awards on May 14.

For our 2018 Embracing Different Cultures Nomination, we have selected the founder of Welcome Neighbor STL, Jessica Bueler.

Mawda Altayan didn’t know how to cook when she first got married, but she always took notes while her mother-in-law made her favorite meals.

"By creating our own events in our own community, where we have a safe place to get together, mourn and heal together, it's a tremendous thing to do together."

The group’s next public event will be held this Sat., Feb. 23, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Ballwin from 6 to 8pm;

Yahoo! Finance's Melody Hahm spoke with Jessica Bueler about how the organization Welcome Neighbor STL grew from a single Nextdoor post into a volunteer [...]

The city’s growing Muslim community has been joined, since 2014, by close to 70 Syrian refugee families. I have met a few of them through Welcome Neighbor STL.

Cooking classes led by immigrants and refugees are emerging all over the U.S., in cities large and small, from the League of Kitchens in New York City and [...]

Dr. Pradip Das presented the Das Family Foundation Gateway Globe Award for Entrepreneurship to Jessica Bueler, founder of Welcome Neighbor STL.

We want to let Missourians know about the Middle East, culture, food, everything. The other thing is I’m a big fan of the refugees.

FOX2Now - The Middle Eastern Cultural Festival is coming up soon and you don't want to miss out on this! Not only can you partake in some fun activities [...]

How our region’s becoming more global, equitable, creative, philanthropic, and livable

The organization's Supper Club is just one way in which it's helping local refugees.

Welcome Neighbor STL provides an array of help to Syrians. When Lina Almuallem fled war-torn Syria in 2012 with her husband and three children she knew no [...]

Asked to give a review of her meal, Lori Korn gushed in her praise. The baba ghanoush — a dish of mashed, cooked eggplant — “excellent, very smoky and [...]

New refugee neighbors prepared traditional syrian foods, letting others get a glimpse at their culture.

At the dinner to benefit Syrian refugees, there aren't enough seats for the Syrians. The room at the Boo Cat Club is packed, and Jessica Bueler is flitting [...]

Guests savor ethnic food while helping refugees, thanks to Welcome Neighbor STL Alahmad told her life's story in front of the 120 or so people at the [...]

This morning we would like to share a very special story here. It is quite inspiring. One of a St. Louis woman who has garnered national attention here for [...]

Jessica Bueler is one of only six people in the U.S. to win the National Great Neighbor Award.

We recognized Jessica Bueler & Welcome Neighbor STL for all of the work they have done for Syrian Refugees in St. Louis. It all started with a post on Nextdoor.

Welcome Neighbor STL hosts recurring dinners in which refugee families provide home-cooked food and proceeds benefit the family.

Nextdoor is an social network that connects neighbors, neighborhoods and government. St. Louis is celebrating 4 years of existence on the platform and [...]

On November 1, 2016, four Syrian refugees were beaten outside of their home in the north side of St. Louis. The boys, who ranged from 13-15 years of age, [...]

A series of short LGBT plays called “Briefs” will be playing this weekend at the Zack Performing Arts Center on Locust Street. Some of the proceeds from [...]

Over the past three weeks, St. Louis Nextdoor member Jessica Bueler has witnessed the power of community in an incredible way. What started out as a single [...]

Volunteers are now reaching out to Syrian refugees who now call St. Louis home. Today they dropped off more than $1,000 worth of toiletries to refugee families.