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Ann Wittman with Farid Wardak, an Afghan immigrant, in front of the house that the Wittmans purchased for the Wardak family in the St. Louis suburb of Affton. / Jonah McKeown/CNASt. Louis, Mo., Aug 22, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).By the time the Taliban captured Kabul at the end of August 2021 and began ruling with oppression, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children had fled the country, many seeking a new life in the United States. A stay-at-home mother of three sons, Ann Wittman, 47, felt that the time was right for her to start doing charitable work full-time. As exhausted and destitute Afghans began to arrive in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, Wittman saw an opportunity to put her Catholic faith into action by extending a hand to the newcomers. Nearly a year later, Wittman has provided for the Afghan community in ways she could not have previously imagined. She and her husband bought one family a house. She s given other families donations of large items .
Ann Wittman with Farid Wardak, an Afghan immigrant, in front of the house that the Wittmans purchased for the Wardak family in the St. Louis suburb of Affton. / Jonah McKeown/CNA
St. Louis, Mo., Aug 22, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).
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Ann Wittman with Farid Wardak, an Afghan immigrant, in front of the house that the Wittmans purchased for the Wardak family in the St. Louis suburb of Affton. / Jonah McKeown/CNASt. Louis, Mo., Aug 22, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).By the time the Taliban captured Kabul, Afghanistan at the end of August 2021 and began ruling with oppression, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children had fled the country, many seeking a new life in the United States. A stay-at-home mother of three sons, Ann Wittman, 47, felt that the time was right for her to start doing charitable work full-time. As exhausted and destitute Afghans began to arrive in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, Wittman saw an opportunity to put her Catholic faith into action by extending a hand to the newcomers. Nearly a year later, Wittman has provided for the Afghan community in ways she could not have previously imagined. She and her husband bought one family a house. She s given other families donations of.