User:Fred Dweh

My name is Fred Dweh knowing as DMP, I was born in Liberia but raised in Ivory Coast. My family and I left Liberia when I was two years old because of a civil war which was one of Africa's bloodiest, claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Liberians and further displaced a million others into refugee camps in neighboring countries. As a boy, growing up in Ivory Coast wasn’t easy, my family and I had to struggle to survived. As a teenager small in age, my brothers and I had to shine people shoes in order to make ends meet. In 2000, the Ivory Coast civil war which nearly killed my family and I had started. There were know where to ran to, even the people who could return to their own country were all gone, including the UN. We couldn’t go back to Liberia, it wasn’t safe, therefore we were just there, left with know hopes. By 2003, the UN came back and took us in the capital city of Ivory Coast in order to bring us here in the United States. I came in the United States January 15, 2004. I am very happy to be here in the US, I don’t have to worry about civil war again. The only thing that worries me now is about my friends and two sister who left behind and never get a chance to experience this great country. To day, I am a high school graduate, second years in college.