One year ago, a crisis like no other. As the U.S. was responding to the urgent humanitarian crisis following the military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Kakar family, following their emergency evacuation, was staying on a military base in Virginia. Within days of arriving, unsure of
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After a tumultuous late-summer escape following the Taliban’s occupation of their country, and an autumn spent jostled between temporary locations, eight Afghan men finally arrived safely in Rochester, MN in December of 2021, ready to create a new home The men all live together in an apartment,
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Fridley Volunteer Rides Waves of Current Events with Afghan Friends Through a Good Neighbor Team at Grace Evangelical Free Church in Fridley, Liz, Monica and Melissa began teaching English to an Afghan woman named Setara. Little did they know a pandemic would follow shortly after. Their
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Through our Afghan Women’s English Language Learners (AWELL) program, we built a friendship with Sher Mohammad, his wife Nilofar, and their family. Sher Mohammad and his 13-year-old daughter were in Afghanistan visiting family during the takeover of the Taliban in August of 2021. His green card helped
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Haleema hadn’t learned to read and write in her own language I met Haleema exactly a year ago through Arrive Ministries. After our first meeting her husband told me that in Afghanistan she only went to school for 4 years and that she never had the opportunity
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Becky started volunteering with Afghan Women’s English Language Learners (AWELL) because of her passion for building cross-cultural relationships. She was introduced to a sweet Afghan family in Bloomington through Arrive Ministries, and has been teaching the mom English since 2019. “I liked them a lot right away,
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