With new newspaper and new businesses, Afghan refugees finding new community in Missouri
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 18, 2023
ST. LOUIS — Moji Sidiqi was nine years old when she first came to the United States with her family. As a toddler, she would leave her home country of Afghanistan and move to not one, but two new countries.
When Sidiqi was 3 years old, her brother was burned in a fire that left him needing plastic surgery. With the help of the UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, Sidiqi and her family moved to Moscow and then, years later, St. Louis, Missouri. Resettling twice meant that her brother would have access to the care he needed . . .
