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Serving the Community - 5:12

with Wassim Mahfouz - Senior Executive Director of Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities

Posted Mar 25, 2019

Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities is a 501 ( c) (3) Not for profit human services organization, committed to the development of the Community, in all aspects of its economic and cultural life. To fulfill this goal, the LAHC provides a wide range of human and cultural services as well as advocacy work.

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