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Tmas Orphanage opens with help from YAI

Youth Action International celebrates the construction and launch of the Tmas
orphanage home in Monrovia. The orphanage is now home to 140 children who
lost their parents during the Liberian civil war. We first came across Tmas
orphanage in 2006. At that point, the orphanage was housed in the shell of a
building without a roof, windows or doors. Youth Action International worked to
relocate the orphanage and construct modern facilities.