State: Pennsylvania City of Residence: Levittown, Pennsylvania Country of origin: Liberia Arrival in the U.S.: 1999 Mr. Joseph Sackor was two months away from graduating college when war broke out in Liberia and he and his family were forced to flee to neighboring Guinea. Before being resettled, Mr. Sackor served as the president of Liberia Refugee Students organization in Guinea, […]
State: Montana City of Residence: Helena, Montana Country of origin: Liberia Arrival in the U.S.: 1994 Mr. Wilmot Collins is a refugee from Liberia who was forced to flee the Liberian civil war after the ceasefire collapsed and two of his brothers were killed by rebels and government soldiers. Mr. Collins arrived in the United States in 1994, and he […]
Northeast Regional Representative Delegate – Delaware Country of origin: Liberia Arrival in the US: 1992 Lourena Gboeah is the Refugee Congress Delegate for Delaware. She was resettled to the U.S. in 1992, when she was only four years old, after her family fled war in Liberia and the continuous harassment from government soldiers and rebels. Gboeah is committed to serving […]
Delegate – New York Country of origin: Liberia Arrival in the U.S.: 1999 George Tarr is the Refugee Congress Delegate from New York. He and his family were forced to flee Liberia in 1998 during the brutal civil war. They were at risk of being targeted because of his grandfather’s work as a government official. In 1999, he was resettled […]