A new show by KSL Podcasts - Uinta Triangle - An Aussie who loves hiking solo goes missing in the rugged mountains of the American West. Dave Cawley, the investigator behind the podcast COLD, heads into the wild to answer the question: What happened to Eric Robinson?
Follow Uinta Triangle at uintatriangle.com on Apple podcasts or wherever you listen.
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BONUS #5 - "You Feel Like You are Part of the Solution..."
In our final bonus episode, host Andrea Smardon talks to one of the founders of the Blacksburg Refugee Partnership, the all-volunteer group that supports Sima and other veterans of the Afghan Female Tactical Platoon as they rebuild their lives in the U.S.
Co-founder Scott Bailey talks about how it all started with a conversation among concerned friends in church and shares the secrets to their organization’s success - how regular citizens without any prior experience pulled together to form a community of support. He says it’s not about being "helpers," but being "partners." And he talks about the rewards that partnership offers for everyone involved.
For more, including pictures, visit us at kslpodcasts.com.
For more on Scott's volunteer organization Blacksburg Refugee Partnership, visit blacksburgrefugeepartnership.org.
Stranger Becomes Neighbor is a production of KSL Podcasts.
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BONUS #4 - "They Did it for Us..."
They’re known as Zero Units – forces of Afghan men who served in their country’s National Strike Units, the NSU. These specially trained counter-terrorism soldiers worked in cooperation with the U.S. military and intelligence communities.
In this episode, Andrea speaks with Geeta Bakshi, a former CIA operations manager and counterterrorism expert- code named "Blackbird." Bakshi has first-hand experience with the Zero Units, both in Afghanistan and in America. Bakshi is also the founder of FAMIL, an organization dedicated to ensuring that Afghan partners who served on behalf of the United States are supported as they resettle in America.
For more, including pictures, visit us at kslpodcasts.com.
For more information about FAMIL, visit their website at familusa.org.
Stranger Becomes Neighbor is a production of KSL Podcasts.
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BONUS #3 - "I Heard Their Story..."
When small business owner Doug Richmond heard the story of one Afghan father and how he risked his life helping Americans in their counterterrorism efforts, he was inspired to help his family. He realized the best thing he could do was to offer him a job in his business. It started with one hire, but Doug had no idea he would end up hiring a dozen men from the same Afghan special forces unit. Doug talks to Andrea about what one person can do and how we can’t know the impact of our actions.
For more, including pictures, visit us at kslpodcasts.com.
For more on Hope4Afghanistan, go to hope4afghanistan.org.
And find Sisters of Service at sistersofservice.org.
More information on PenFed Foundation’s Afghan Rescue and Resettlement program can be found at penfedfoundation.org.
Stranger Becomes Neighbor is a production of KSL Podcasts.
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BONUS #2 - Sisterhood Forged Under the Pressures of War
An experiment to allow women in Afghanistan to help U.S. special forces during combat raids was a full-fledged program by the time the American military pulled out of the country in 2021. Sergeant Rebekah Edmondson was there as the Cultural Support Program began and Americans started training women from Afghanistan to became soldiers as part of the Female Tactical Platoon. In a candid interview, she gets honest about the challenges of developing trust across different cultures and under pressures of war. Now she feels a personal responsibility to make sure these Afghan soldiers are supported in America. Rebekah’s work continues now with the PenFed foundation to assist these women who were allies to the U.S.
For more information on the PenFed Foundation’s Afghan Rescue and Resettlement program, visit penfedfoundation.org.
For more, including pictures, visit us at kslpodcasts.com.
Stranger Becomes Neighbor is a production of KSL Podcasts.
We saw it on the news. The images still haunt us.
Two years ago this month, a desperate sea of humanity rushed the Kabul airport as the American military started mass evacuations in Afghanistan. Many were left behind to face the Taliban, while some escaped to countries like Iran and Pakistan.
For over 80,000 refugees, America is now home. Their lives continue, but our news feeds have moved on, blasting stories about today’s crisis-du-jour. Now these evacuees live beside us, trying to make ends meet, find housing, gain acceptance, adapt to a new culture, and become valued members of our communities.
In Stranger Becomes Neighbor, we follow them. And we meet the Americans who have chosen to help their new neighbors. Like the stay-at-home mom who convinces a neighbor to rent out their basement to a pregnant Afghan woman, then finds herself helping to deliver the baby. Like a young widow who served in a secret pro-American unit of the Afghan military and now struggles to find childcare so she can work at Walmart.
Their stories – and the heartbreaking stories of loved ones left behind – inspire us to discover the hope and triumph of the human spirit.
What can one person do to help a stranger?
We find out on a new podcast from KSL Podcasts, the people who brought you Cold and The Letter.
Coming soon, Stranger Becomes Neighbor
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