The fall of Kabul touched off a massive evacuation that brought thousands of Afghan war allies to the United States — and hundreds to live permanently in Philadelphia. One year later, State Department thanked the city for welcoming the evacuees.
It was a quiet entrance on a momentous day, up the elevator and through the main lobby to where the staff of Nationalities Service Center had assembled.The anniversary stood too somber for celebration, a year to the day since the fall of Kabul touched off a massive evacuation that brought thousands of Afghan war allies to the United States — and hundreds to live permanently in Philadelphia.
So many people arrived so quickly — in the middle of a housing crisis — that many ended up living months in a Center City hotel. “It’s not over,” said Lucy Rabbaa, director of social services at HIAS Pennsylvania, another leader in the resettlement. “We still have people who a year later still don’t have a job.”
“It’s an incredible honor for us to have the assistant secretary come to NSC,” said Margaret O’Sullivan, the agency’s executive director. “We were part of something extraordinary.” Evacuees first went to what were called “lily pad” sites, the emergency centers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and began arriving in the United States in large numbers in fall.Then, in November, it received 79 Afghan newcomers in one day. And 200 by the end of the week.
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