Refugees

The Biden administration’s Uniting for Ukraine program allows people from the war-torn country to temporarily stay in the U.S., and hundreds are coming to St. Louis. But Ukrainians don’t qualify for the benefits that other refugees receive, leaving local agencies and American sponsors scrambling to help them.

Missouri’s only senior center devoted to immigrants and refugees resumed its popular senior groups last month.

Viktor and Svetlana Zribnyak had lived in Kharkiv, Ukraine, since 1983, but Russia’s invasion forced them to flee to their son’s home in St. Charles.

In the past year, St. Louis has resettled 538 Afghans who arrived in the U.S. as refugees of their war-torn country.

Zamzama “ZZ” Safi discusses her life in St. Louis, where she settled after fleeing Afghanistan five months ago.

The International Institute of St. Louis is changing its resettlement playbook and asking outside nonprofits to help for the first time in recent history.

The donation by Pershing Charitable Trust will go toward the $3.5 million the International Institute aims to raise.

Afghan immigrant Qais Meraj tells St. Louis on the Air about his work as an interpreter for the U.S. military and his journey as a refugee, as well as his thoughts on the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Welcome Neighbor STL founder and executive director Jessica Bueler and Syrian refugee and business owner Mawda Altayan discuss on "St. Louis on the Air" how the organization has been helping refugees since 2016.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has raised approximately half of the $400 million budgeted to help Afghan refugees around the world. The money pays for everything from shelter to hygiene kits, blankets, sleeping mats and emergency shelter kits.