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Shipley Provides African Immigrant and Refugee Families with 25 Donated Computers
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Shipley School’s Technology Department is responsible for donating 25 computers to Multicultural Community Family Services. MCFS is a non-profit community-based organization, located in Upper Darby, responsible for providing social services to African immigrants and refugee children and their families.
"The concept of MCFS was conceived to meet the social and emotional needs of African families who were resettling in the Philadelphia region and beginning new lives as immigrants and refugees. These were children and families who had become victims of the vicious and ongoing civil wars in Liberia as well as Sierra Leone, Guinea, the Ivory Coast, and other African countries.” MCFS brochure
MCFS will be refurbishing the computers and giving them to families to use at home. MCFS also provides counseling, mentoring, prevention, and empowerment support services.
March 2004
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