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Featured News
We’ve Moved!!
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, Vandeventer, and Manchester at the eastern edge of The Grove neighborhood. Aside from great sightlines, […]
Haroon Safi to Coordinate Federal Afghan Services Program in St. Louis
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 since the arrival of Afghan evacuees in 2021, Haroon had been working long volunteer hours in the […]
Agency Secures Federal Award, Launches Afghan Services Program
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 Afghanistan. The Services to Afghan Survivors Impacted by Combat (SASIC) program will run for three years at 24 sites nationwide. According to the Office […]
Featured Events
Trivia Night 2023! – November 4
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 have all the usual trivia night shenanigans (mulligans, 50-50 raffle, cash prizes, and some variant […]
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 […]
