Refugees Struggle to Make Way in North Shore

Refugees Struggle to Make Way in North Shore
Refugees Struggle to Make Way in North Shore

Refugees Struggle to Make Way in North Shore

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Our series Chicago Matters: Beyond Borders continues now with another visit to the Fahnbulleh family. The fifteen Liberians arrived in Wilmette this winter after subsisting for five years in a refugee camp in Sierra Leone. The parents—Victoria and Lamin—have found jobs, along with their oldest daughter. Their twelve other children are enrolled in North Shore schools. It’s a world away from their war-torn homeland. But life in America is proving to be more complicated than they first thought.