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GatewAY TO A NEW LIFE

Can immigrants save a struggling city?

Please join us at an upcoming screening of "Gateway to a New Life" 

 

Sunday January 12, 2025  at 9:45 a.m. at the Ethical Society of St. Louis,

9001 Clayton Road, St. Louis, MO 63117.

Panelists include Moji Sidiqi of the International Institute, Afghan refugee and speaker Zamzama Safi, and filmmaker Kathy Bratkowski.

Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:00-6:00 pm

Millennium Student Center, Century Room A&B

Sponsored by the UM St. Louis History Department

Featuring  Zamzama Safi, filmmaker Kathy Bratkowski and Welcome Neighbor St. Louis.

Friday January 10, 2025  11am

Great Wonders Uplift Film Festival- Official Selection

Route 66 Theater
24 S. Main Street | Webb City, MO 64870

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Stockholm, Sweden
October 19-20, 2024

Narrated by Afghan actor and social activist

 Leena Alam

The population of St. Louis is on a downward trajectory.

Are immigrants the solution?

St. Louis city officials and business leaders want to attract thousands of Afghan refugees and immigrants to St. Louis. The Afghan families include men and women who worked for the U.S. military.

Many remain in refugee camps overseas, visas mired in red tape. The U.S. promised these military contractors that they'd bring them to America. 

Since the mid-1990s, thousands of Bosnians have settled in St. Louis, opening new businesses and reviving neighborhoods. Can St. Louis replicate the Bosnian immigrant experience with these new refugees? 


In "Gateway to A New Life," meet the people behind the Afghan Support Program and the resilient Afghans who are building new lives in St. Louis. 





 

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Let me know about screenings of

"Gateway to a New Life"

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