Joplin Interfaith Coalition

The eighth annual event is a way for the Joplin community to sample food from different cultures and religions.

About 250 attended the event to help Noel, Missouri-based RAISE, raise over $10k of the $14,500 cost of a driving simulator to help refugees earn their driver's licenses.

The children and their families were relocated after the US announced it would end it’s 20-year war in Afghanistan

70 additional refugees from Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan, and the Congo are expected to arrive in Joplin later this year

Due to the influx of refugees RAISE increased their staff rom 6 to 20 part-timers in 2022

Three Afghan refugees spoke Saturday about the process, leaving their country and starting over