After over a decade on Macklind Avenue, Bilingual International Assistant Services has pulled up stakes and moved about a mile down Manchester. The agency now inhabits the 7th floor of the historic Chouteau Building at the three-way intersection of Chouteau,...
Can't stop, won't stop! The 5th Annual Bilingual International Trivia Night returns Saturday, November 4 at Immaculate Conception Parish Hall in beautiful downtown Maplewood (7240 Anna Ave., Maplewood, MO 63143). Doors open at 6; trivia begins promptly at 7. We'll...
When the team at Bilingual International was putting together the federal grant application for the SASIC (Services to Afghan Survivors Impacted by Combat) program, there was only ever one candidate envisioned as the project’s coordinator: Haroon Safi. Especially...
St. Louis-based immigrant services nonprofit Bilingual International Assistant Services has been awarded a $1.8 million dollar competitive federal grant (HHS-2022-ACF-ORR-90ZZ0003) to provide holistic case management and counseling services to evacuees from...
From 1932 to 1933, millions of Ukrainians perished in a devastating famine known as the Holodomor, a tragedy many argue was the result of oppressive Stalinist policies that included controlling access to crops, restricting movement out of the country for the poor,...
After almost three years of waiting, we were finally able to hold our Macklind International Senior Center Picnic on May 14, 2022 at Tower Grove Park. The weather was beautiful. Families of Center participants and staff mingled on the grass. And the food was...
It took a while to get the all-clear to reopen the center, but after over 2 years, we finally reopened on April 14, 2022. And we are happy to announce that we will be holding the Macklind International Senior Picnic in Tower Grove Park on May 14, 2022 from 11 a.m....
We have been relatively quiet on the war and humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. It has been and remains a lot to process, especially for an organization with deep ties to that corner of the world. Our founders were Russian-speaking Jews from the former Ukrainian Soviet...
