The Welcome Table
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A family of seven
arrived Tuesday — and you were there.
By Zeenat Khan, Founder · Photographs withheld at the family's request
When Amira* walked through our doors on Tuesday morning, her five children trailing behind her, she carried two suitcases and a folder of paperwork. No winter coats. No groceries. No phone plan. Within forty-eight hours — because of subscribers and donors like you — they had all three, plus a warm apartment in Richardson and an ESL placement for the two school-age children. On Thursday, Amira brought coffee for our case manager. Before she left, she paused at the door. "In my country I was a nurse," she said. "Here, I want to learn so I can be one again." We're already working on it. *Name changed for privacy.
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A week, counted & kept.
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Lentil kofta, the Afghan way — a recipe from Chef Hiba.
This month, Hiba trained seven women to roll kofta the way her mother taught her: red lentils, cumin, a whisper of saffron, the kind of turmeric that stains your fingertips for two days. She sent us the recipe this week to share with you — "so your table tastes like ours." Serves four · Thirty minutes · Halal Read the full recipe |
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Where to find us next.
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شكراً · Shukran
With gratitude, this week, to —
Sarah · Muhammad · Zainab · Omar · Leila
and twenty-seven anonymous donors who asked us not to name them. |
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"Who will lend to Allah a goodly loan,
so that He may multiply it for him many times over?" Quran · Sura al-Baqara · 2:245
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