Bay Area Afghan Community Marks Anniversary Of U.S. Withdrawal

CBS San Francisco

August 15, 2022

With the one-year anniversary of the Taliban taking over Afghanistan imminent, Bay Area community leaders say many challenges remain for the new arrivals who managed to escape that country as well as for the people who remain there.

"We are trying to really help, especially, the new arrivals so they can settle down so they can understand the resources," said Rona Popal, executive director of the Afghan Coalition based in Fremont. "We think these women and children are hostage by the Taliban regime."

In the year since the Taliban captured Kabul and gained control of the country -- even before the U.S. completed its withdrawal from the country -- people who came to the Bay Area and other U.S. locations as new arrivals struggle to find affordable housing options, steady work opportunities and they face language barriers as they adjust to their new living circumstances.

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