Quipu Mai Yuan, since 2002, has served as an unpaid volunteer of the African Farmers’ Cooperative, a program of the Universal Human Rights International (UHRI). Quipu’s leadership has helped UHRI to establish one of the most successful refugee-led agriculture projects in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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She served as the National President of the United Nimba Citizens’ Council in the Americas (UNICCO) for two years and continues to serve as a member of its board. Her efforts have gained national and international media attention, including a September 15, 2000 interview by The New York Times focusing on the plight of her family and Liberians in the United States, while her husband Harry T. Yuan lives in the Republic of Liberia in West Africa.
Her book, The Childhood River, although not based on reality, is greatly influenced and childhood memories. It reflects on the lives of the people in her native country, Liberia and the war and sufferings they have gone through. The book also focuses on the traditions, marriages, child rearing, special emphases on educating the boys and keeping the girls back for early marriages.
The Childhood River. (2010). Xlibris Corporation
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