Refugees

The International Institute of St. Louis wants health care providers to make sure they’re able to communicate with an expected surge of new arrivals from other countries. The institute’s leaders say it can often be difficult for refugees and immigrants to understand the country’s health care system.

Shacko and Akim’s debut album, “As Long As You're Mine,” includes Afrobeat, contemporary R&B and other influences. The brothers moved to St. Louis eight years after fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The International Institute of St. Louis will open the Anna E. Crosslin Center for Multicultural Excellence in January. The center will provide cultural workshops, training, programming and events to residents and business owners.

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.