Multicultural Community Family Services

cious and ongoing civil wars in Liberia and other African countries. Some of the devastating outcomes included famine, political and ethnic oppression, and the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of citizens, particularly women and children. Youths forced to become child soldiers, and students of all ages denied the right to an education, were other consequences of the civil wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, the lvory Coast and other African countries. The horrifying consequences noted above, led many African families to flee their countries of origin and seek shelter as immigrants and refugees in the United States of America. Many of those families have settled in the Philadelphia area including West, Southwest and Northeast Philadelphia, as well as the Upper Darby Township and the Boroughs of Yeadon, Darby, Cowlyn, Landsdowne and Sharon Hill in Eastern Delaware County.