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Quipu Mai Yuan
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 ha...view moreQuipu 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.
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. Quipu and her children presently
live 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 infl uenced by her
experiences and childhood memories. It refl ects
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 raring- special
emphases on educating the boys and keeping
the girls back for early marriages.view less