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Featured News
International Senior Picnic Returns to Tower Grove
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 delicious. Kayla Drake from St. Louis Public Radio was on hand […]
Overdue and Inconvenient Thoughts on Ukraine: What Solidarity Looks Like
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 Socialist Republic, and – as you can probably imagine – those […]
Missouri Driver Handbook Translated for Afghan Allies
For Immediate Release: March 14, 2022 Contact: Jason Baker, 314-541-4610, jason.baker@bilingualstl.org Missouri Driver Handbook Translated for Afghan Allies St. Louis, MO. Bilingual International Assistant Services, a St. Louis-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving immigrants and refugees in Missouri, has released full Dari and Pashto translations of the Missouri Driver Handbook. The agency commissioned these translations to provide direct […]
Featured Events
The Ukrainian Holodomor at 90 – UN Day in Support of Victims of Torture
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, rejecting foreign aid, and actively denying the famine’s existence. To mark the annual […]
International Senior Picnic Back in 2022!
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. To 2 p.m. All […]
