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Stanley Yeahwon makes it home!

Finally after months of planning and waiting on the United Nations, Stanley made it home to Monrovia Liberia!

When he was 10 his parents were shot and killed during the civil war. The UN moved him to a temporary refugee camp near Accra, Ghana. That is where I met him. Now over 10 years later, he is home!

I have known Stanley for almost 3 years I guess, talking several times a week. It has been such a hard time for him in a camp with no clean water, no bathrooms, no real house to sleep in, just a shack. In a refugee camp there are no jobs, no career path, no education....so it has been very hard surviving. Along the way he had malaria twice I think. A man who came from Accra to stay with them stole a flash drive from someone in the camp. Because Stanley was with him, he was jailed for the offense and kept in HORRIBLE conditions until restitution was made.

We talk a lot about the Lord and he has shown me what it means to completely trust HIM for everything. Give us this day our daily bread is a reality to him!

I also see how we are the same. His temptation is to trust in himself to find a way to survive in the same way I trust in myself to make more or have more. I thought that was interesting.

Right now he is not in a good part of the city of Monrovia. He is in the Red Light district. Here is a video of a ride through the district I found on YouTube. Just a good visual of what he is now facing with no place to sleep and no money in a new country.



So our goal is to get him around some Christians, find a job and a room to live in. (A room is $25 a month, only catch is you have to pay a year up front...It's a sellers market right now with the flood of refugees)

Did you know rubber is one of Liberia's largest export? Firestone has a big plant there in Monrovia.

I'll keep you updated on the progress....

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Here's Stanley's story he wrote for me a few years back.

Stanley Yeahwon is my name, I am a Liberian born in the north west of Africa coast. descended into a civil war that spanned over a decade and drove hundreds of thousands of refugee to neighboring countries.

One afternoon why my parent and I was home, rebel broke into our homes and suspected my parents of being employed by the ruling government at the start of the war. Both my parents were forced into a truck at gun point as I watched.When the truck disappeared from sight over a nearby hill, I heard two gunshots ring out.That was how I came running out of the house and left for a refugee camp in shortly afterwards. Since then I have not heard about the wherabouts of my brothers and sister.

Unfortunately, life on the camp isn’t mush better.

Original having been designed for a population of 5000, it currently houses approximately 60,000 people. Presently on the camp, there is no help been giving to refugee here and that has place most refugee in such a position were in a dark cloud has been place over their future.

Educations
Due to the above mention, I am kindly asking for help so that I can be able to cater to my education and also be able to help my dear country.

Because in time like these my country (Liberia) needs educated people who will pledge their service in helping our country stands on it own cause as you all may know, education place a vital road in one life and it is also the key to success…………………

With the above mention, I am kindly asking that the almighty God will speak to the hart of a loving person so that I can be bless.