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While more than 1.6 million Afghans have fled the country since 2021, the total number in neighboring countries is 8.2 million, underscoring the humanitarian crisis for one of the largest displaced groups in the world. Some now call St. Louis home.
The Career Center at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the inaugural cohort of the Pershing Fellowship in Nonprofit Leadership, an innovative internship program that connects rising juniors and seniors to leading nonprofit and community organizations. The university will provide fellows a competitive $10,000 stipend.
In the past year, St. Louis has resettled 538 Afghans who arrived in the U.S. as refugees of their war-torn country.