Hadia Ahmadi arrived in Fort Worth on March 9, 2023,with just two suitcases and the clothes on her back. Now the 24-year-old Afghan national marvels at how far she’s come.
“It really worked out for me,” she said over iced coffee at a local Starbucks. “But it was my friends here who made it possible.”
When the United States armed forces withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, life turned upside down in the country. Nearly 200,000 Afghans have sought safety in the U.S. since the Taliban returned to power. More than 1,000 of the new arrivals call Fort Worth home…